----- Original Message -----
From: "Chad"
<innocentkiller(a)gmail.com>
In fact on any page on either site, one cannot
find any link to the
corresponding page on the other site.
Yeah, secure.wikimedia.org's URL scheme isn't really friendly
to outsiders. Historically, this is because SSL certificates are
expensive, and there just wasn't enough money in the budget
to get more of them for the top-level domains. Maybe this isn't
the case anymore.
Is that in fact the root cause, Chad? I assumed, myself, that it's because
of the squid architecture.
So now
everybody will be passing around two times the amount of
links to what in fact is the same material.
If people are pasting double links, then they're being silly. I
imagine a lot of stuff on Commons uses {{fullurl:}} so the links
are properly generated by MediaWiki.
No, in fact the root cause of his complaint is pretty likely to be
HTTPS-everywhere, which redirects users to the https site in case they're
at an insecure wifi spot, so their creds don't get stolen.
This is likely to markedly increase https traffic; I've myself been wondering
if that's been noticed the last month.
Redirection would be pointless. Serving them from the
same
domain (eg:
https://commons.wikimedia.org) would be great
and is already posted as a bug[0]. I think this is your primary
complaint, but as usual you spent half of your post insulting
people and creating straw men.
Aspergers' syndrome is a bitch.
Cheers,
-- jra