On 11 May 2014 13:55, Silke Meyer <silke.meyer@wikimedia.de> wrote:
It is not a trivial redirect: Wikimedia Deutschland will obviously not
give the wildcard SSL certificate for *.wikimedia.de to WMF (and WMF
would not want to have it). This would mean we would have to
completely delegate that subdomain to WMF and guarantee that it stays
like that forever. This is hard to guarantee and it is also misleading
to delegate a .de subdomain to the Foundation.

First of all: Why would the (sub)domain need to be delegated to the WMF? The redirect could just be on WMDE servers.

If the redirect *has* to be on Foundation servers for some reason, it could just use a specific tools.wikimedia.de certificat -- or we could just kill SSL altogether -- the tools.wikimedia.de domain is from before the toolserver even had SSL support.

In numbers: there are only 11 links to https://tools.wikimedia.de on enwiki, as compared to 87059 to http://tools.wikimedia.de. Even on dewiki, which should be the more privacy-interested people ;-), the numbers are 13 (https) vs 14673 (http).

 
This is why I'm asking tool developers to replace this link in their
tools. (Yes, it is used inside older tools, not just somewhere in this
internet.)

In that case, I suggest to e-mail those tool authors directly to ask them to fix that.

Merlijn