>From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of >Corinna Vinschen >Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 3:35 AM >To: cygwin@cygwin.com >Subject: Re: Proposed patch for web site: update most links to HTTPS > >On May 22 00:29, Brian Clifton wrote: >> >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_20160 >> >> 424 >> >> .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 >> >> Good points Corinna; I updated the patch to use relative URLs (attached). If >> the attachment does not work for some reason, it can also be downloaded from >> here: >> https://patch.clifton.io/cygwin/cygwin-htdocs_bsclifton_https_20160521 >> .patch > >Thanks for doing that, but this patch can't apply. Please note that the >cygwin-api, cygwin-ug-net, and faq subdirs are maintained as part of the >cygwin repo itself and are in XML, not in HTML. Only the generic stuff is >maintained in the htdocs repo. > >On second thought, using relative paths inside the Cygwin docs (cygwin-api, >cygwin-ug-net, and faq) is not such a bright idea, because the docs should >ideally work even if not on the cygwin.com website. >Sorry about that, but I didn't notice that your patch also changes the Cygwin >docs :} > >Can you please split up the patch in two chunks? > >The generic website patches should be based on the Website git repo at > > git://sourceware.org/git/cygwin-htdocs.git > >the Cygwin docs patches on the Cygwin git repo at > > git://sourceware.org/git/newlib-cygwin.git. > >The docs XML files are in the winsup/doc subdir. > > >Thanks, >Corinna >
Apologies for not responding sooner- attached is a patch for only the htdocs repo. I'll look at updating the docs next :) Thanks Brian
bsclifton-htdocs-ssl-20160612.patch
Description: bsclifton-htdocs-ssl-20160612.patch
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