From: Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] RFC: Removing http:// mirror URLs where https:// is available
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 10:12:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <820b69a32e270c6fbf479df8ad0233f41c98e004.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5455c0ba-0ec9-de7f-617c-1350eea8b405@gentoo.org>
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On Fri, 2021-02-12 at 14:37 +0200, Joonas Niilola wrote:
> Hey,
>
> First of all I'm asking because I don't know, but are there any
> technical limitations why we should still be showing http:// mirrors
> when https:// is available? I've just gone through multiple mirrors
> listed in https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/mirrors/ and most of them
> even redirect http requests to their https site.
It might be useful to keep actual http mirrors for cases where TLS
isn't possible for some reason, but any mirror that just redirects http
to https wouldn't fall in that category and there the http version
could be removed since the only benefit of http (no TLS) is not
actually available.
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-14 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-12 12:37 [gentoo-project] RFC: Removing http:// mirror URLs where https:// is available Joonas Niilola
2021-02-13 17:32 ` Alec Warner
2021-02-13 18:16 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-02-15 8:19 ` Joonas Niilola
2021-02-14 9:12 ` Hans de Graaff [this message]
2021-02-15 8:21 ` Joonas Niilola
2021-02-14 9:17 ` [gentoo-project] " Toralf Förster
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