Oldak Quill wrote:
2008/9/6 Casey Brown :
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 6:33 PM, George Herbert wrote:
Query - Is there a secure (https) URL / access path in to Wiki Commons?
Yeah, and it follows the same format as the other ".wikimedia.org" sites (wikipedia/projectname). Here's the Commons gateway: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Main_Page.
Could https://commons.wikimedia.org/ be made to redirect to that URL? Is there a good reason not to do this? I imagine some users test for secure access by typing https://commons.wikimedia.org/ into their browser. The same goes for the other Wikimedia projects.
For that you could just serve the pages directly on https://commons.wikimedia.org/ One of the main reasons of having just one secure server is having just one ssl cert. To do that you'd need at least one cert per top-level domain. The other problem and the reason through ssl is a bit flaky is the problem of how to load balance ciphered connections. That's why there's only one server (bart) to handle secure.wikimedia.org (hits are then proxied to the internal load balancer).