Re: Proposed patch for web site: update most links to HTTPS

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Apr 24 17:18, Brian Clifton wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I have a proposed change for the web site. This patch (see below) will update most of the urls to HTTPS. In many cases there was a redirect; for those I captured the new canonical address.
> 
> (Per the https://cygwin.com/contrib.html, this is *not* a change to anything in the winsup directory, which is why I chose the cygwin@cygwin distro)
> 
> The patch can be found here:
> https://patch.clifton.io/cygwin/cygwin-htdocs_bsclifton_https_20160424.patch

Thanks for the patch, but, here's a question:

Since Cygwin.com redirects http requests to https anyway, all links
to cygwin.com (or, FWIW, sourceware.org) will end up as https requests
anyway.

Having said that, wouldn't it make sense then to avoid absolute links
to cygwin.com and rather convert them to relative links, i.e.:

  -<a href="http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg02182.html";>Inspired</a> by
  +<a href="/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg02182.html">Inspired</a> by

?


Thanks,
Corinna

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