Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Jun 2020 09:33:37 -0600 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: documentation |
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On Tue, 26 May 2020 08:05:44 +0200 "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@al2klimov.de> wrote:
> Rationale: > Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM > as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate. > > Deterministic algorithm: > For each file: > For each line: > If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`: > For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`: > If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions > return 200 OK and serve the same content: > Replace HTTP with HTTPS. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
I've applied this (again), let's hope for the best.
jon
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