On 10/15/2014 06:06 AM, Mark Bergsma wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Alexandros Kosiaris
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Chris Steipp <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> Updating the hook would be possible. Probably better than not turning
>>> off ssl3 to the main sites though. What about just running a banner on
>>> the site for IE <6 users, telling them that ssl is disabled and soon
>>> they won't be able to login at all, we disable ssl3, and we
>>> temporarily put the CanIPUseHTTPS hook in to not force IE <6 users to
>>> https. After 90 days or so, we pull that part out of the hook, and IE6
>>> users just have to deal with not being able to login?
>>
>> Given the numbers Christian pointed out, I think the 90 days interval
>> is pretty irrelevant. It is not like those users will rush to
>> upgrade/change to something not being IE6. I'd be delighted if we
>> convinced something like 5% (~200k people if my numbers are right) of
>> those users to do that. That being said, the plan sounds fine to me.
> 
> 
> How many -logins- are we seeing from non-TLS capable browsers? I'd
> expect that to be much lower. Likely the majority of IE5/6 users are
> from very out of date corporate environments, which is probably not a
> place where most of our users are editing from.

This bug is very relevant here:

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56575

Summary: In April Oliver found that IE 6 has only 0.00479% of logged-in page
views these days.

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