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Re: people.debian.org will move from ravel to paradis and become HTTPS only



On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 06:19:14PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> None of these brings people who type in people.debian.org into their
> browser to https.

Right.

AFAICT the only technical change that will do that (sanely) is an
HTTP-level redirection from http://(.*) to https://$1 . Having that
enabled by default, plus a way for DDs to opt-out to the redirection
(dunno, by dropping .no-https-by-default files in suitable
sub-directories of ~/public_html) would nicely address the few
objections I've seen in this thread.

FWIW:

- it's not entirely clear how much extra work implementing this would
  require. In particular, I haven't put much thought in an easy way to
  implement the directory-level opt-out.

- I *personally* don't mind having https only, quite the contrary! But I
  got hooked by the discussions and couldn't resist proposing an API :)
  (sorry)

Cheers.
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