Follow-up Comment #7, bug #6694 (project savane):

> It is not something we want to lose.

Define "we", preferably without using 'must' ;)


> > This breaks the automatic http->https relocation, but
> > security-wise, that's more logical - if you want to stay
> > in ssl > mode, you probably don't want your session
> > cookies to be sent > inadvertently clear-text.

> Not sure to understand. You mean for external links to
> viewcvs?  Seems hard to predict whether https is available
> on external links. If you want to enforce security there,
> you should probably configure the group type to have https
> in the viewcvs url.

I mean that I do not want a cookie set via https to be sent
via plain http. So I suggest using the secure=1 setcookie()
option in this regard.

Note that https is not necessarily available
(cf. recipe #114).


"This breaks the automatic http->https relocation": exemple:
- you login to http_s:_//sv.gnu.org
- you close the browser
- you type http://sv.gnu.org, or click on a
  bookmark... so you use a non-secure URL -> now, you
  send the cookie clear-text, and you are redirected
  to https:. With what I suggest, in this case, you are
  considered not logged-in, and you have to manually add a
  's' to 'http:' in the URL bar. However that's more secure
  because you session is indeed reserved to TLS mode.


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