From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@imgtec.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prefer https: for GNU and FSF URLs
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:37:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1709291634040.12020@tp.orcam.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18cce39e-4a5a-27d8-a1ca-5ec45973088e@cs.ucla.edu>
Hi Paul,
> The attached patches adjust glibc to prefer https: in URLs for gnu.org and
> fsf.org. FTP is being decommissioned soon for gnu.org, and although the GNU
> project files are not secret, plain HTTP is vulnerable to malicious routers
> that intercept responses from GNU servers, and this sort of thing is all too
> common when people in some other countries browse US-based websites.
What's wrong with FTP, especially as given what you have stated it seems
useful for people beyond myself, and not merely (as it is in my case) for
convenience reasons?
Maciej
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-29 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-22 4:24 [PATCH] Prefer https: for GNU and FSF URLs Paul Eggert
2017-09-22 11:47 ` Joseph Myers
2019-09-07 10:06 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-07 10:22 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-09 16:28 ` Joseph Myers
2019-09-09 17:45 ` Florian Weimer
2019-09-09 16:27 ` Joseph Myers
2019-09-09 21:18 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-22 12:13 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-09-29 15:37 ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
2017-09-29 16:59 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-10-04 23:19 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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