Thanks for taking care of this.  People are asking this on Wiki and
forum (and even WWW) for long.  And I know a wild card certificate is
very costly.

On 2013/10/27 16:05, janI said:
> On 27 October 2013 02:58, Ariel Constenla-Haile <arie...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 09:30:06PM -0400, Rob Weir wrote:
>>> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile
>>> <arie...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:54:59PM +0200, janI wrote:
>>>>> Hi.
>>>>>
>>>>> www.openoffice.org now accept both http: and https: as announced
>>>>> earlier.
>>>>>
>>>>> We have however seen that e.g. product.css contain image tag with
>>>>> http://xxx.  All references must be relative (without http: and
>>>>> https:). I hope the web admins can do make the needed changes.
>>>>
>>>> There are 26,349 matches of "http://www.openoffice.org/"; in
>>>> ooo-site.
>>>>
>>>
>>> We *are not* going to change to a system that requires that links to
>>> www.openoffice.org are all https.  I hope that is not what is being
>>> suggested.  Remember, we have 10's of thousands of *external* links to
>>> our website that we do control and cannot change.
>>>
>>> Please someone, tell me that this is not what is being suggested here.
>>
> 
> No its not, as I wrote in the part you quote, www.openoffice.org will
> continue to have https: but also https: as pr request from the project.
> 
> But if I might remind you sent a mail to infra, asking why https: was not
> implemented for www.openoffice.org, which I and pctony responded to.
> 
> And if you look at INFRA-6608, you will see a comment from andrea 3 August:
> "And we will want to use it, even though there is no authentication there,
> for
> http(s)://www.openoffice.org
> (this is mainly because we receive a steady, even if low, amount of
> complaints from users who cannot browse our main site on HTTPS). "
> 
> 
> We infra have done exactly as the project asked us to do according to
> INFRA-6608, and that is not correct ??
> 
> I actually never understood why https: was wanted on www.openoffice.org,
> but it was not a problem to do it, so it was done.
> 
> today is a  day where I am less proud of being AOO-PMC. We (AOO) have been
> after infra to get a certificate and get it implemented. Yesterday mark
> took a big chunk of time and with some help from me, got it implemented. I
> think infra should have a "thank you", instead !
> 
> 
> I have of course a double heart in this situation, but I am sure this is
> not a good way, to work together.
> 
> rgds
> jan I.
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> were you have href="http://www.openoffice.org/some_resource";, it should
>> be href="/some_resource" (nothing crazy, but a good practice).
>>
>> Grepping href=["']http://www.openoffice.org/ gives 25,026 matches.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> --
>> Ariel Constenla-Haile
>> La Plata, Argentina
>>
> 


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