On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:33 PM, jan i <j...@apache.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

​Not sure thats a good idea. I mean we already have https working perfectly
for most people. Why should we have everyone get an unsupported message?​



>
> 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 All of this would anyway fix an undocumented, unpublished URL that we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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