Well, fair enough, I guess. What's the worst that can happen? Some hacker get's to read about freetype😂. It's a win-win according to meðŸ¤ðŸ¤.
On Wed, 27 Oct, 2021, 12:36 AM Bermler, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 3:00 PM, Anurag Thakur <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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. > > according to who? Https will still be there, it’s just that both will be > there. Chrome and modern browsers will automatically redirect to https even > if the http version is working. > > There is alot of money involved with https :) so of course you’ll hear > stuff like http is bad always when it’s not. For a read only site like > freetype.org it’s perfectly fine. For a bank or shopping site than https > enforcement is 100 necessary. > > And keep in mind that the site was like this before. I am not against > HTTPS I just think that both should be there. Our peers have both up like > before. > > > 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? > > the browser is not the problem, more so the certificates. The older > devices may not have the newer certificate installed, since https providers > have to pay browser companies to include it, and sometimes it’s hard for > people to update their browsers. > > > 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🤔 > > > Yes, it should ultimately be up to Werner and Alexei. They will know best. > > Remember it’s supporting BOTH systems, not having http only. An http only > site is craziness and is not a very good idea in 2021, I will agree with > that. > > > > 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > >
