On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 14:23 +0100, Giovanni Bajo wrote: > Il giorno 19/feb/2013, alle ore 06:13, Richard Jones <r1chardj0...@gmail.com> > ha scritto: > > > Hi all, > > > > I've just altered the nginx configuration to promote (ie. redirect to) > > HTTPS for all GET/HEAD requests. This includes HSTS, but I've set the > > lifetime to 1 day just in case there's some HTTPS compatibility > > issues. Once it's bedded down I'll bump it to a year. > > What is the benefits of redirects? I think they just hide potential problems, > and they still can be exploited by MITM through ssl-stripping. Plus, they > cause breakage and/or UX problems in existing tools. > > Given that they give basically no security, I would suggest their removal > until we fix all important issues in all third-party tools. For browsers, > since you can still serve HSTS headers even without redirects, we can get it > included in Chrome and Firefox builtin HSTS list. > > > 2. incorporate some monkey-patching into distribute and setuptools and > > promote those, > > I think this is our best bet for an immediate and global solution for > outdated versions of Python as well. I will work to prepare a distutils patch > that is compatible with 2.6 (which includes SSL), and then adapt it for 2.7 > and 3.x. > > Do we have numbers of how many 2.5-compatible packages have been updated in > the last 6 months?
FYI i did a number of py25 compatible releases of projects in the last 6 months - but i generally upload the dist files from higher python versions, so no patch for 2.5 needed (or 2.6 for that matter). best, holger _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
