All on-wiki discussion agrees that the http service has been unceremoniously dumped. Various reasons are given: HSTS won't allow you to access it (not quite true) and that it would allow SSL Stripping attacks (almost totally false).
On 20 June 2015 at 13:43, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Yuri <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Now all previously http URLs redirect to https. > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page also still mentions the old > > http address that now redirects. > > > > What is the new purely http API address? > > > > I don't think there is one. > > -- > Brad Jorsch (Anomie) > Software Engineer > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Landline (UK) 01780 757 250 Mobile (UK) 0798 1995 792 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
