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Date:      Mon, 11 Dec 2017 21:29:07 +0000
From:      Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org>
To:        phk@phk.freebsd.dk, matthew.finkel@gmail.com
Cc:        yuri@rawbw.com, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: http subversion URLs should be discontinued in favor of https URLs
Message-ID:  <201712112129.vBBLT7tj006260@donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net>
In-Reply-To: <20171208082503.cve4526nkwf7chef@localhost>
References:  <97f76231-dace-10c4-cab2-08e5e0d792b5@rawbw.com> <2a6d123c-8ee5-8e1e-d99b-4bce02345308@rawbw.com> <1217.1512685566@critter.freebsd.dk> <20171208082503.cve4526nkwf7chef@localhost>

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Matthew Finkel <matthew.finkel@gmail.com> wrote:

> Why doesn't everyone have that option? Why is broadcasting a users information
> across the internet forced upon them? Shouldn't they have a choice?

They do! HTTPS already exists!

This thread is about removing HTTP and forcing HTTPS - "Why should
HTTPS be forced upon them? Shouldn't they have a choice?"

:-)

 | 21:16 (4) "/tmp" root@lapcat# svn export https://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/11/usr.bin/fortune
 | A    fortune
 | A    fortune/datfiles
 |
 | [ ... ]
 |
 | A    fortune/tools/Troff.sed
 | Exported revision 326782.

Voila! A https delivery of "fortune" ! (Confirmed via tcpdump not to be
using fallback HTTP)

cheers!



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