From: Vasilij Schneidermann <mail@vasilij.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Enforcing TLS for GNU ELPA
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 00:10:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201019221020.GD1842@odonien.localdomain> (raw)
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Some time ago I've contributed a change to a certain package
repository's webserver setup that responds to http:// requests with a
301 redirect to the https:// version. Should the same be done for GNU
ELPA? Why/why not?
Some data points for the "why not" faction I've discovered after that
change:
- There's still Windows users who do not have an installation with the
gnutls libraries, despite the strong suggestion to download it for the
full experience.
- Emacs versions below 26.1 are affected by a HTTPS proxy bug [1] that
makes life in corporate environments hard.
- The initializer of `package-archives` already generates the
appropriate URL, so this will affect people who have redefined that
variable and break their setup for no reason.
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next reply other threads:[~2020-10-19 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-19 22:10 Vasilij Schneidermann [this message]
2020-10-19 22:20 ` Enforcing TLS for GNU ELPA Vasilij Schneidermann
2020-10-19 22:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-20 7:50 ` tomas
2020-10-20 9:05 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-20 10:07 ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2020-10-20 11:38 ` Jean Louis
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