Re: https blogs?

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Tomasz Torcz:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:32:28AM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Holcroft wrote:
>> Le 2017-02-14 20:10, Kevin Fenzi a écrit :
>>> There's no real security advantage here, other than making more traffic
>>> on the net encrypted, which I think is a good goal.
>>>
>>> What do folks think? Doable? To harsh? Pointless?
>>
>> Do you have any statistics of the number of blog that should migrate? Total
>> blog number, total blog with partial https (is it easy to detect?), total
>> blog with full https.
>  
>   I've tried to estimated this, using http://fedoraplanet.org/heads.html:
> 
>   – there are 716 blogs in total 
>     * 284 URLs start with https://
>     * 432 URLs start with http://
>   
>   - if I do s/http/https/ and try to access the blogs (of 432 "http://"; ones):
>      - 225 over https returned content with roughly the same size as returned over http
>      - 209 weren't accessible by https
>      - 34 weren't accessible by http, either
> 
>   I did not check if those 225 "forced https" contain any mixed content.
> 
> Summary:
>   - we have 716 blogs on Planet
>   - we can access (284+225=)  509 of them over https
>   - by forcing https we would loose ~ 200 blogs
> 

I'd recommend a hybrid deadline,  say  6 months from ?today ?($date)?
blog is less favored if by Jan 1 2018 it's still not https it  gets
dropped, this let's people know 1) we are seriously 2) not trying to
kill them with an immediate seemingly arb. deadline.





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