Vincent Lefevre wrote in <[email protected]>: |On 2025-08-19 01:41:36 +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> P.S.: i really think it is on purpose, but i could not find the |> context where he mentioned it; he cares for elder machines which |> cannot do TLS, if i recall correctly. | |For http://gcc.gnu.org at least: | |qaa:~> wget http://gcc.gnu.org |--2025-08-19 03:20:42-- http://gcc.gnu.org/ |Resolving gcc.gnu.org (gcc.gnu.org)... 2620:52:3:1:0:246e:9693:128c, \ |8.43.85.97 |Connecting to gcc.gnu.org (gcc.gnu.org)|2620:52:3:1:0:246e:9693:128c|:80\ |... connected. |HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found |Location: https://gcc.gnu.org/ [following] |--2025-08-19 03:20:43-- https://gcc.gnu.org/ |Connecting to gcc.gnu.org (gcc.gnu.org)|2620:52:3:1:0:246e:9693:128c|:44\ |3... connected. |HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK |Length: 19956 (19K) [text/html] |[...] | |As you can see, there is a forced redirect to https, so older machines |that do not support https will not be able to access the GCC website |anyway.
I think the time has come when it is best that Antonio speaks for himself. (Or his daughter, .. off-topic but i am a bit afraid of getting all kinds of "are you a robot" questions when i go internet, already had this, so .. am silent now. Viva.) --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
