On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Chris Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, I'm a developer at Mozilla and I have a patch [1] that would switch > Firefox's Wikipedia search box from HTTP to HTTPS. > > Who would be an appropriate technical contact at Wikimedia that I can > coordinate with? Is this a change Wikimedia would welcome? Or would the > increased SSL server load be an undue burden for Wikimedia? Just to be > clear, this change would only affect Firefox users who search Wikipedia > using Firefox's search box. > > A few months ago, Mozilla switched Firefox 14 (currently in Beta) to use > Google's HTTPS search [2]. If I check in my Wikipedia patch soon, the change > would ride Firefox's Nightly, Aurora, and Beta release channels [3] and be > released to the general public in Firefox 16 (October 2012). >
Please don't do so. HTTPS is a new service, and we haven't properly load tested it yet. The first target for production load testing is for logged-in users. I'm not opposed to the change completely, but I'd prefer to let you guys know when we're ready. Thanks, - Ryan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
