https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47832

Neil Kandalgaonkar <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #24 from Neil Kandalgaonkar <[email protected]> ---
An idea for dealing with China and other cases where HTTPS is blocked - could
there be an 'http://insecure.wikipedia.org'? The inverse of the situation we
had with 'https://secure.wikipedia.org'. At least the domain name advertises
the problem to the user.

This is far less slick than a geolocated redirect, but in situations where
HTTPS is blocked, I don't see any way to preserve usability and security at the
same time. 

As far as I know, if HTTPS is blocked, we can't redirect them to HTTP, because
they won't even reach our server. We could only 'upgrade', by redirecting from
HTTP to HTTPS. But by then it's too late; the article they've requested was
captured by intermediaries.

Maybe with 'insecure.wikipedia.org', savvy users in places like China would
learn the trick, or use browser extensions to fix links. Presumably it would be
the 'HTTP Everywhere' extension.

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