On 2016-02-18 at 04:27, Niklas Edmundsson wrote: >>>> * The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> [2015-09-04 12:17]: >>>>> When I connect to http://get.debian.org/ in a Web browser, I >>>>> am redirected to https://www.debian.org/CD/, which is a HTTPS >>>>> site. > > FYI, get.debian.org redirects to http://www.debian.org/CD/ > > I think the https stuff comes from the > https-was-previously-used-for-this-site-so-lets-enforce-it > site/browser feature, I forget what it's called... > > So at least the confusion is not intentional on our part ;-) The same redirection happens with wget: $ wget http://get.debian.org/ --2016-02-29 07:19:52-- http://get.debian.org/ Resolving get.debian.org (get.debian.org)... 130.239.18.173, 130.239.18.165, 2001:6b0:e:2018::165, ... Connecting to get.debian.org (get.debian.org)|130.239.18.173|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: https://www.debian.org/CD/ [following] --2016-02-29 07:19:52-- https://www.debian.org/CD/ So unless wget has a similar feature (which would rather surprise me, particularly since I don't see one documented in the man page), I think this is an unlikely explanation. (For that matter, it also happens with lynx, for which I'd be even more surprised if such a feature were present.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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