> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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