On 5 May 2014 17:58, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > pip and virtualenv have moved their documentation away from > http://www.pip-installer.org/ and http://www.virtualenv.org/ to > https://pip.pypa.io/ > and https://virtualenv.pypa.io/. The new locations are still backed by > ReadTheDocs however they are fronted by Fastly and have enforced TLS.
Purely out of curiosity and an interest in reducing my level of ignorance over security, what's the point in having documentation behind HTTPS? Is there a security exposure in reading docs that is mitigated by using HTTPS? Or is it just a matter of consistency and a principle of always using a secure protocol? Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
