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From: "Chad" innocentkiller@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