On 01/13/2016 09:09 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > I've been working with a number of colleagues getting ready to turn HTTPS > on by default for various loc.gov domains. This has been fairly successful > and we're working through the old legacy apps now.
Awesome! > When that work completes, we'll have somewhere around half a million links > which differ only in the URL scheme. What would be the best way to rewrite > all of those URLs? I'd like to reduce the window during which users transit > from HTTPS -> HTTP -> HTTPS. You can use Pywikbot's replace.py[1], which lets you provide regex find/replace and can get a list of pages from the API equivalent of Special:LinkSearch. You should also consider setting up HSTS[2] so regardless if users click on an HTTP link, they'll be sent to the HTTPS version of the site. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/replace.py [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security -- Legoktm _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
