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
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