He's complaining, in effect, that there are more than one URL for identical content, which is in fact generally a bad idea, but in this case, of course, he's wrong: different *access protocols* are being used, so it's not possible to conform the two...
Whether it is in fact still a Best Practice to make sure that they're the same is another matter; I understand *why* we have a separate domain name for https, architecturally, but I'm not sure I *like* it.
Cheers, -- jra
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From: "Huib Laurens" sterkebak@gmail.com To: "Wikimedia developers" wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 10:18:33 PM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org commons sockpuppet site I don't understand the email also... The secure site has been arround for years...
2011/2/13, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com:
jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
Someone posted a link to
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Category:Hogtie_bondage
Delving further, we find https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Main_Page says Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, when in fact the real site is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page . Or is it?
In fact on any page on either site, one cannot find any link to the corresponding page on the other site.
So now everybody will be passing around two times the amount of links to what in fact is the same material.
OK, I found the pattern for converting one to the other: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Category:Hogtie_bondage _________________ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hogtie_bondage
One would hope the owners of Wiki[pm]would redirect etc. one to the other, to stem the proliferation of non-canonical links.
What in the Christ are you talking about?
Reading with squinted eyes and a cocked head, it sounds like you've discovered the secure site. It's documented here:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Secure_server
- http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/secure.wikimedia.org
I have no idea what this has to do with hogtie bondage or why a post to this mailing list (or the gendergap mailing list, for that matter) was necessary.
MZMcBride
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