:) I would like to think that April Fools would be a little more extreme than this
Petr, the data people are downloading from dumps is not sensitive itself, but a user's private information (such as User Agent, IP, etc. is vulnerable over plain http). So the move to https protects that from snoopers like the NSA. I don't have much to do with this change, and I consider it beneficial, but does it cause any problems? On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Huib Laurens <sterke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Aprils fool? > > On Friday, 1 April 2016, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Can you give us some justification for this change? It's not like when > > downloading dumps you would actually leak some sensitive data... > > > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF <ar...@wikimedia.org > > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > We plan to make this change on April 4 (this coming Monday), > redirecting > > > plain http access to https. > > > > > > A reminder that our dumps can also be found on our mirror sites, for > > those > > > who may have restricted https access. > > > > > > Ariel Glenn > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > -- > Met vriendelijke groet, > > Huib Laurens > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
