Re: [Wikitech-l] Dumps.wm.o access will be https only

2016-04-08 Thread Ariel Glenn WMF
This is now live, if a few days later than expected. Ariel On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF wrote: > This is part of a longstanding general plan to move to https for our > services. You can track (most of) those items here: >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dumps.wm.o access will be https only

2016-04-01 Thread Ariel Glenn WMF
This is part of a longstanding general plan to move to https for our services. You can track (most of) those items here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/162/ although the specific task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128587 is not listed there. In particular you might look at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dumps.wm.o access will be https only

2016-04-01 Thread Huib Laurens
Aprils fool? On Friday, 1 April 2016, Petr Bena wrote: > Can you give us some justification for this change? It's not like when > downloading dumps you would actually leak some sensitive data... > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dumps.wm.o access will be https only

2016-04-01 Thread Dan Andreescu
:) I would like to think that April Fools would be a little more extreme than this Petr, the data people are downloading from dumps is not sensitive itself, but a user's private information (such as User Agent, IP, etc. is vulnerable over plain http). So the move to https protects that from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dumps.wm.o access will be https only

2016-04-01 Thread Dan Andreescu
Cross-posting this announcement since people on Analytics-l tend to use dumps a lot basically http access is being redirected to https starting April 4th On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 7:03 AM, Ariel Glenn WMF wrote: > We plan to make this change on April 4 (this coming Monday),

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dumps.wm.o access will be https only

2016-04-01 Thread Petr Bena
Can you give us some justification for this change? It's not like when downloading dumps you would actually leak some sensitive data... On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF wrote: > We plan to make this change on April 4 (this coming Monday), redirecting > plain

[Wikitech-l] Dumps.wm.o access will be https only

2016-04-01 Thread Ariel Glenn WMF
We plan to make this change on April 4 (this coming Monday), redirecting plain http access to https. A reminder that our dumps can also be found on our mirror sites, for those who may have restricted https access. Ariel Glenn ___ Wikitech-l mailing