> is there is any way the http version of the site can be preserved in any way
I think this is possible, however I don't know if we should be doing that, http is generally frowned upon nowadays. > so older laptops and devices and access the site before. I don't know enough to decide if this claim is grounded in reality, but I have a feeling this shouldn't be a problem, old devices can use modern browsers, right? Since I don't know the impact of not supporting http might have, I would like some feedback: @Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> and @Alexei Podtelezhnikov <[email protected]> what do you guys think🤔 Anurag On Wed, 27 Oct, 2021, 12:16 AM Bermler, <[email protected]> wrote: > > By the way, is there is any way the http version of the site can be > preserved in any way? Before the migration it was there. Basically both the > http and https versions of the site should remain open instead of just > https with http redirecting to https. It should be possible with Cloudflare. > > > Many of our peers (zlib, varnish cache software, libpng) are using the > http and https structure and I like this way so older laptops and devices > and access the site before. The Cloudflare cert are new and older devices > may not have its certification installed. > > > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 1:25 PM, Anurag Thakur <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Well, changing to cloudflare was just a 2 line change, and if it gives us > worldwide superfast CDN for free, I don't see any reason not to use it :) > > Regards > Anurag > > On Tue, 26 Oct, 2021, 10:50 PM Bermler, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don’t think having the site behind Cloudflare is necessary at least for >> now. It should just point directly to gitlab. After all didn’t we say small >> steps? >> >> >> Sent from ProtonMail for PinePhone >> >> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 12:30 PM, Anurag Thakur < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> As discussed with the maintainers, the freetype.org domain hosting has >> been changed to gitlab pages, along with cloudflare CDN. >> >> >> Currently the gitlab pages are hosted on gitlab.com, via this repo: >> >> https://gitlab.com/freetype/freetype-web >> >> I chose gitlab.com instead of freedesktop.org since it was the easiest >> way to make sure that the website is uninterrupted while we work on the >> redesign, and it simultaneously allowed me to do the migration to >> gitlab+cloudflare. >> >> After the redesign is complete, changing the hosting to freedesktop.org >> would just require modifying 2 DNS records. >> >> Please note that all development should happen on the freedesktop.org >> repo: >> >> >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype-web >> >> >> Do NOT send any MRs/commit to the gitlab.com repo. >> >> >> I would like to request the maintainers to clear any config left on the >> previous hosting platform/any shell scripts used to manage the website, >> since it's all managed by gitlab pages now. >> >> >> Happy to answer any questions >> >> Regards >> Anurag >> >> >> >> > >
