All on-wiki discussion agrees that the http service has been
unceremoniously dumped. Various reasons are given: HSTS won't allow you to
access it (not quite true) and that it would allow SSL Stripping attacks
(almost totally false).
On 20 June 2015 at 13:43, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Yuri
<yuri(a)rawbw.com> wrote:
Now all previously http URLs redirect to https.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page also still mentions the old
http address that now redirects.
What is the new purely http API address?
I don't think there is one.
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Wikimedia Foundation
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