Bob Proulx <[email protected]> writes:

> Ihor Radchenko wrote:
>> Bob Proulx writes:
>> > But that URL is not one to be seen by humans though so it should not
>> > be a problem for humans to sort out.  That's the URL for git clients.
>> > And git clients being computer programs are never surprised as such by
>> > what they use or find there.
>>
>> Oh, no. That *is* seen by humans. We need to give it for git clone
>> instructions. As a result, for example, it is staring right at the users
>> at https://orgmode.org/. Some users are confused.
>
> This is talking about this line on that page:
>
>     git clone https://https.git.savannah.nongnu.org/git/org-mode.git
>
> That's staring at users in the git clone command.  That is not staring
> at users in the web browser location bar.  Those are two completely
> different things.

Yeah. You are right. I was replying slightly out of context of the topic.

> Also one of the good reasons to have it be "https" in both places is
> because it is easy to match them up.  "http" matches with "http",
> "https" matches with "https".

That's what makes some users think that it is a typo.
See https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/[email protected]/

>> >     git.git.savannah.gnu.org
>> >     https.git.savannah.gnu.org
>> >     http.git.savannah.gnu.org
>> >     gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org
>> >     cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org
>
>> What about simply mirror.git.savannah.gnu.org?
>
> That would recreate almost the same problem we have today by funneling
> all of those services together into one URL all over again.
>
> Take the case that often occurs that we have a botnet that decides to
> destroy cgit and hammers cgit to oblivion.  If they are all under the
> same URL mirror.git.savannah.gnu.org then if ANY of them get DDOS'd
> then ALL of them get DDOS'd.  That's what we are trying to avoid.

Hmm. I was rather thinking about something like

mirror.git.savannah.gnu.org
mirror.cgit.savannah.gnu.org
etc

Not everything under the same name.

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