From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Enforcing TLS for GNU ELPA
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:30:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmu0hdf9d.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201019221020.GD1842@odonien.localdomain> (Vasilij Schneidermann's message of "Tue, 20 Oct 2020 00:10:20 +0200")
> 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?
I'd vote for no: I'm happy to encourage the use of `https` but that
would prevent access over `http` which doesn't seem like
a friendly choice.
I'm not sure what would be the benefits (and for whom).
> - 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.
We could emit a disapproving message from package.el when gnutls is
unavailable (same thing for PGP, incidentally).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-19 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-19 22:10 Enforcing TLS for GNU ELPA Vasilij Schneidermann
2020-10-19 22:20 ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2020-10-19 22:30 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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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