[hibernate-dev] Re: Automatically Upgrade to HTTPS

+1 I think we need to move off github pages; it's great for simple projects but it's not flexible enough for us. On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 at 08:55, Gunnar Morling <gunnar(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > >> it broke legacy applications whose XML parser will automatically >> fetch > the DTD from hibernate.org on startup, > > Gasp, I see. They shouldn't really be fetching that file in the first > place, but I see how you don't want to break those consumers. > > You might do it perhaps by announcing a transition date in a few > months > (e.g. 2020/03/31), giving people time to upgrade. I cannot quantify > the SEO > impact of this, but I suppose it's only getting worse. Tough choice > :( > > --Gunnar > > > Am Mo., 23. Nov. 2020 um 17:34 Uhr schrieb Yoann Rodiere < > yoann(a)hibernate.org&gt;: > >> Hey, >> >> Ah, this again. >> >> We've already looked into it. Last time we did, we got bug reports >> because >> it broke legacy applications whose XML parser will automatically >> fetch the >> DTD from hibernate.org on startup, and does not handle redirection >> or >> HTTPS (I don't know which exactly). >> >> We cannot do this redirection on a per-page basis (to exclude /dtd/) >> because we're using GitHub pages and the redirection setting is >> global. >> >> So right now, we could only do this by moving away from GitHub >> pages. And >> then we'd probably need some cache in front of our server. >> >> Long story short, nobody had time to look into this so far. >> >> Yoann Rodière >> Hibernate Team >> yoann(a)hibernate.org >> >> >> On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 at 17:23, Gunnar Morling <gunnar(a)hibernate.org&gt; >> wrote: >> >>> Hey all, >>> >>> I just noticed that visiting http://hibernate.org/ (i.e. not >>> http*s*) >>> will >>> not automatically upgrade you to HTTPS, but leave you with that >>> ugly >>> unsecure icon in the browser address bar. It's also what you get >>> when >>> simply typing hibernate.org (i.e. 99% of users). >>> >>> As search engines tend to penalize non-HTTPS these days, I'd >>> suggest to >>> look into automatically upgrading if possible. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> --Gunnar >>> _______________________________________________ >>> hibernate-dev mailing list -- hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to hibernate-dev-leave(a)lists.jboss.org >>> %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s >> >> > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list -- hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > To unsubscribe send an email to hibernate-dev-leave(a)lists.jboss.org > %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list -- hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org To unsubscribe send an email to hibernate-dev-leave(a)lists.jboss.org %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s