Gentoo Archives: gentoo-project

From: Joonas Niilola <juippis@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] RFC: Removing http:// mirror URLs where https:// is available
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 08:21:19
Message-Id: db5784bf-733c-ba98-236e-09d694b2edea@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] RFC: Removing http:// mirror URLs where https:// is available by Hans de Graaff
1 On 2/14/21 11:12 AM, Hans de Graaff wrote:
2 > It might be useful to keep actual http mirrors for cases where TLS
3 > isn't possible for some reason, but any mirror that just redirects http
4 > to https wouldn't fall in that category and there the http version
5 > could be removed since the only benefit of http (no TLS) is not
6 > actually available.
7 >
8 > Hans
9 Hey,
10
11 This was also suggested in IRC and sounds reasonable to me. It would've
12 been a lot easier and faster to go through "duplicated" http(s) URLs,
13 but this shouldn't be too bad either.
14
15 -- juippis

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