This is part of a longstanding general plan to move to https for our services. You can track (most of) those items here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/162/ although the specific task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128587 is not listed there.
In particular you might look at a couple of the tasks under 'Big Picture', i.e. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104681 HTTPS Plans (tracking/high level info) and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T75953 RFC: MediaWiki HTTPS policy (though that doesn't directly address dumps). Ariel On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can you give us some justification for this change? It's not like when > downloading dumps you would actually leak some sensitive data... > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF <ar...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > We plan to make this change on April 4 (this coming Monday), redirecting > > plain http access to https. > > > > A reminder that our dumps can also be found on our mirror sites, for > those > > who may have restricted https access. > > > > Ariel Glenn > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
