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Bug 53526 - Recent Changes IRC feed should link to the HTTPS diff
Recent Changes IRC feed should link to the HTTPS diff
Status: NEW
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Site requests (Other open bugs)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Blocks: ssl
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Reported: 2013-08-29 08:24 UTC by Dan Wolff
Modified: 2014-06-05 10:34 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Description Dan Wolff 2013-08-29 08:24:01 UTC
With the recent move to push HTTPS, it makes sense to also link to the HTTPS version of diffs in the Recent Changes IRC feed.

To consider:
Bots that read those feeds might expect HTTP. Can we notify bot operators somehow?
Comment 1 Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) 2013-08-29 15:15:09 UTC
I believe those feeds simply use the canonical url, which is still HTTP.
Comment 2 Alex Monk 2013-08-29 16:35:13 UTC
Why was this in the Wikimedia product?
Comment 3 Dan Wolff 2013-08-29 17:28:23 UTC
@Legoktm - if it is true that it uses the canonical URL, it makes sense to just wait for that change. Is there a bug for that, that this bug should depend on?
Comment 4 Krinkle 2014-06-05 10:09:03 UTC
(In reply to Alex Monk from comment #2)
> Why was this in the Wikimedia product?

Because it has very little to do with MediaWiki core. I don't think this is something MediaWiki core would decide. It uses the canonical server url as configured by the system administrator of the server.

If a wiki wants to promote HTTPS or even enforce by default, they should do so in general. I don't think it makes sense to do so for one very specific arbitrary part of the software (e.g. not page view, not e-mails, not API, but RCFeed, and only the IRC format..).

If Wikimedia wants to make an exception for it, they could do so in wmf-config.

Alternatively, since I'd rather not make breaking changes to IRCRCFormatter, this is probably something individual programs can do.

For example, the Huggle or CVNBot could rewrite urls as HTTPS for their users if their user base is interested in that.

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