Valentin Petzel <[email protected]> writes: > What browser are you using? Rejecting a page without SSL is somewhat > stupid. For many webpages the only benefit of SSL is that you have a > certificate that the content is correct. While certainly it would be > possible to do some man-in-the-middle attack tricking you into having > Lilypond into executing arbitrary scheme code it is still safe to say > that most likely SSL does not matter for Lilypond.
PDF files can execute JavaScript, so do many webpages, and the LilyPond downloads are certainly security-relevant as well. > But SSL is not free, it requires a bit of computation power. Google > even once redirectes https to http because the load was too high. So > if any webpage uses SSL the internet would suddenly require noticably > more power. That ship has more or less sailed these days. -- David Kastrup
