On Thursday, February 19, 2015, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:

> On 19/02/2015 Marcus wrote:
>
>> OK, next try. Still an error message?
>>
>
> Well... we NOWHERE, and I repeat NOWHERE, advertise the URL
> https://www.openoffice.org ; as a courtesy to those people who prefer
> HTTPS, we make it available, but if they use broken extensions or paranoid
> security settings they cannot blame us too much.


two things I agree they cannot blame us, but since we have a https: site it
should work. A simple alternative is to add a .httpaccess and route https:
to a single dummy page saying unsupported.

just my 2ct.
rgds
jan i

>
> Then:
>
> 1) I also get (Firefox) the warning about "This website does not supply
> identity information"; I didn't investigate this one.
>
> 2) We still load components from HTTP. Marcus, the Net panel in Firebug
> will show you the URLs to all components. You will see that starting with a
> 404 (?) for http://www.openoffice.org/images/formElementDropShadow.
> png?2011060812 you have a series of action buttons that are all included
> via HTTP. This is because lines 56- of
> https://www.openoffice.org/home.css
> contain explicit HTTP links.
>
> You may fix it (but I would need to check the CSS syntax for the url()
> parameter) by:
> - Using /path/to links as Ariel suggested
> - Using // URLs (e.g., "//www.openoffice.org" will point to
> https://www.openoffice.org when called in a https page and to
> http://www.openoffice.org when called in a http page) ; I'm not a big fan
> of this solution, I would prefer the former one.
>
> All of this would anyway fix an undocumented, unpublished URL that we make
> available just to please people (remember, this is a static HTML site with
> no interactive server-side functionality or logins).
>
> Regards,
>   Andrea.
>
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