On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Lukasz Szybalski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Karl Fogel <[email protected]> wrote: >> Monty Taylor <[email protected]> writes: >>> Agree. But, as another for instance, having download tarballs only >>> accessible via https makes it a bit harder for places where you're >>> grabbing those via wget or the like (you have to pass the >>> ignore-invald-cert option) >> >> Yup (plus John Pyper's points in an earlier mail). >> >> I can't promise that this will change anytime soon, since our releases >> are planned out for a while in advance -- but it would help to have a >> bug to track this issue at least. Lukasz, would you be willing to file >> a bug about this (I searched for one and couldn't find any), and make >> sure the bug points back to this thread, which is >> >> https://lists.launchpad.net/launchpad-users/threads.html#04962 >> > > > The primary reason I'm raising this issues is speed of launchpad.net. > When I browse other packages, view their source code, check out the > revision history, view the bugs, check out the blueprints I don't need > it to be secured over https. http is good enough. > > For each new project on launchpad there is 1 developer (he needs > https) and potentially 20 users that want to download the > software.(numbers might very) So 5% of launchpad users at least > require https, while everybody else (95%) needs http because they want > their information fast. I think the trade off between speed vs > security is seen here. > > So lets get to the point. You mentioned that setting it up so that > https is used only if users is logged is a bit tricky vs implementing > https for all was immediate? I would think this shouldn't be that > hard(maybe 2-3 days) so I guess maybe we should start talking how > should it be setup/ vs what needs to be done? > > Is the "logged in user" pages separated enough so that they can be > accessible only through https(redirected to https based on url) or ? >
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