Last modified: 2014-02-28 13:52:34 UTC
I noticed this while in Berlin, when I didn't want to login through http to mediawiki.org. The links in the emails go to the http site, which means I can't place comments. Going to the https version is difficult until bug 20643 is fixed. Other alternative could be a preference that forces a redirect to https (like LWN does it).
Actually it's worse than that -- like some other notification bits it's probably just using whatever the current URL scheme is based on the web request that triggered the mail send. So if someone on SSL makes a comment, you get a link to https://secure.wikimedia.org -- if they're not on SSL, you get the http://mediawiki.org link. This unfortunately has nothing to do with the *receiving* user's own usage or preferences, so that's pretty much not great...
(In reply to comment #1) > Actually it's worse than that -- like some other notification bits it's > probably just using whatever the current URL scheme is based on the web request > that triggered the mail send. Just confirming for the record, this is exactly what's happening.
Also see bug 31826 which requests this for the link in mediawiki-cvs e-mails.