:) I would like to think that April Fools would be a little more extreme than this
Petr, the data people are downloading from dumps is not sensitive itself, but a user's private information (such as User Agent, IP, etc. is vulnerable over plain http). So the move to https protects that from snoopers like the NSA. I don't have much to do with this change, and I consider it beneficial, but does it cause any problems?
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Huib Laurens sterkebak@gmail.com wrote:
Aprils fool?
On Friday, 1 April 2016, Petr Bena benapetr@gmail.com wrote:
Can you give us some justification for this change? It's not like when downloading dumps you would actually leak some sensitive data...
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF <ariel@wikimedia.org javascript:;> wrote:
We plan to make this change on April 4 (this coming Monday),
redirecting
plain http access to https.
A reminder that our dumps can also be found on our mirror sites, for
those
who may have restricted https access.
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