Some sites (I mean, deployments) like to use a caching proxy, especially if many machines use the same resource, and/or bandwidth is scarce. Or even just one machine accessing the same resource often. Maybe this won't apply to anything particular on people.d.o, but certainly a lot of websites are breaking this recently by becoming HTTPS-only.
In the case of people.d.o I guess most issues will arise from clients not having HTTPS support at all, or not being willing/able to follow a redirect. I'm curious to know the rationale for shutting down HTTP access, because if it is to generally protect web browsers doing web-based login and using cookies, that would typically be covered by HSTS. And the privacy-concious may be using the HTTPS Everywhere add-on. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
