[Haskell-cafe] Redirecting hackage.haskell.org to HTTPS

[Branimir Maksimovic]

So I change user agent signature ;)

Greets, Branimir.

On 11/15/20 6:42 AM, Tikhon Jelvis wrote:
> Pages on hackage.haskell.org <http://hackage.haskell.org> are 
> currently served over both HTTP and HTTPS. Package security on Hackage 
> does not depend on HTTPS, so we keep HTTP endpoints for backwards 
> compatibility with automated systems that depend on Hackage and do not 
> support HTTPS.
>
> However, this means that it's possible for users to inadvertently 
> browse Hackage pages on HTTP which is not a great user experience. To 
> address this issue without breaking existing scripts, we are planning 
> to redirect requests to HTTPS based on User-Agent headers: requests 
> with "Mozilla/5.0" in their User-Agent string will be redirected to 
> HTTPS and other requests will remain unchanged.
>
> Please contact us at 
> committee at haskell.org<mailto:committee at haskell.org> if this change 
> will cause problems with how you use Hackage. Otherwise, the new 
> behavior will go into effect on 2020-11-23.
>
> Thanks!
> -Tikhon Jelvis, on behalf of the Haskell.org Committee
>
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