On 11 May 2014 13:55, Silke Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > It is not a trivial redirect: Wikimedia Deutschland will obviously not > give the wildcard SSL certificate for *.wikimedia.de to WMF (and WMF > would not want to have it). This would mean we would have to > completely delegate that subdomain to WMF and guarantee that it stays > like that forever. This is hard to guarantee and it is also misleading > to delegate a .de subdomain to the Foundation. >
First of all: Why would the (sub)domain need to be delegated to the WMF? The redirect could just be on WMDE servers. If the redirect *has* to be on Foundation servers for some reason, it could just use a specific tools.wikimedia.de certificat -- or we could just kill SSL altogether -- the tools.wikimedia.de domain is from before the toolserver even had SSL support. In numbers: there are only 11 links to https://tools.wikimedia.de on enwiki, as compared to 87059 to http://tools.wikimedia.de. Even on dewiki, which should be the more privacy-interested people ;-), the numbers are 13 (https) vs 14673 (http). > This is why I'm asking tool developers to replace this link in their > tools. (Yes, it is used inside older tools, not just somewhere in this > internet.) > In that case, I suggest to e-mail those tool authors directly to ask them to fix that. Merlijn
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