On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Jeremy Baron <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:52 AM, bawolff <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Ryan Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There's no change. We're still waiting on MediaWiki changes to occur > before > >> we switch logged-in users to HTTPS by default. > [...] > > > Furthermore, what does "making the firefox search box be https" have > > to do with having users log in to secure by default. I suppose we > > might not want people to loose their login if they're logged into > > insecure and search via firefox with secure login - is that what > > you're concerned about, or is it something else? > > I was thinking it was just wanting to ramp up load internally first > (where it's really easy and fast to ramp back down if needed) and then > expand to other places when we're more confident. > > Turning on HTTPS by default for all logged in users is one of those > ways to ramp up load in a controlled and easily reversible way. > > This. - Ryan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
