On 0, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com scribbled:
On 9/8/07, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
Unless you are editing through the SSL version. I've started doing that even though I don't use proxies, I don't think it's a bad idea for admins (at least) to use it. I've noticed very little difference in speed, certainly not enough to be bothersome.
Until you accidentally follow one of the zillion URLs that take you back to non-secure if you're logged in there. :)
But if you're using secure.wikimedia, would you be logged in on en.wikipedia? As I've said, I've been editing through the former for some months now, and whenever I am sent to an en.wikipedia.org link, I'm not logged in.
As far as speed goes if you're using TOR SSL is the least of your speed worries.
Yes, that's definitely true. Every little bit helps though, and if you are running a server, you actually get really good browsing speed - subjectively, I felt like my Tor browsing no more than halved (or less on a good day!) the speed when I was running a server. I still don't know whether this is because it cut out a hop (since the server was now on the local machine) or because my traffic was somehow being favored.
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