HTTPS Wikipedia search for Firefox - update? - Wikitech-l

28 Dec 2012

Hi,

Mozilla are asking for update about bug
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758857

Can anybody help?

--
Amir

‎---------- Forwarded message ----------‎
From: Ryan Lane ‎<rlane32@gmail.com>‎
Date: 2012/6/19
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] HTTPS Wikipedia search for Firefox?
To: Wikimedia developers ‫wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org‬

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Chris Peterson &lt;cpeterson(a)mozilla.com&gt; wrote:
...
  hi, I'm a developer at Mozilla and I have a patch
[1] that would switch
 Firefox's Wikipedia search box from HTTP to HTTPS.

 Who would be an appropriate technical contact at Wikimedia that I can
 coordinate with? Is this a change Wikimedia would welcome? Or would the
 increased SSL server load be an undue burden for Wikimedia? Just to be
 clear, this change would only affect Firefox users who search Wikipedia
 using Firefox's search box.

 A few months ago, Mozilla switched Firefox 14 (currently in Beta) to use
 Google's HTTPS search [2]. If I check in my Wikipedia patch soon, the change
 would ride Firefox's Nightly, Aurora, and Beta release channels [3] and be
 released to the general public in Firefox 16 (October 2012).

Please don't do so. HTTPS is a new service, and we haven't properly
load tested it yet. The first target for production load testing is
for logged-in users.

I'm not opposed to the change completely, but I'd prefer to let you
guys know when we're ready.

Thanks,

- Ryan

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