> 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 < yo...@hibernate.org>: > 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 > yo...@hibernate.org > > > On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 at 17:23, Gunnar Morling <gun...@hibernate.org> 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@lists.jboss.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to hibernate-dev-le...@lists.jboss.org >> %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s > > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list -- hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org To unsubscribe send an email to hibernate-dev-le...@lists.jboss.org %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s
