Re: [PATCH] reset: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

From: Philipp Zabel
Date: Mon Jul 20 2020 - 05:49:00 EST


On Sat, 2020-07-18 at 14:18 +0200, Alexander A. Klimov wrote:
> Rationale:
> Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
> as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.
>
> Deterministic algorithm:
> For each file:
> If not .svg:
> For each line:
> If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
> For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
> If neither `\bgnu\.org/license`, nor `\bmozilla\.org/MPL\b`:
> If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
> return 200 OK and serve the same content:
> Replace HTTP with HTTPS.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Continuing my work started at 93431e0607e5.
> See also: git log --oneline '--author=Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>' v5.7..master
> (Actually letting a shell for loop submit all this stuff for me.)
>
> If there are any URLs to be removed completely
> or at least not (just) HTTPSified:
> Just clearly say so and I'll *undo my change*.
> See also: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/6/27/64
>
> If there are any valid, but yet not changed URLs:
> See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/6/26/837
>
> If you apply the patch, please let me know.

Thank you, applied to reset/next.

regards
Philipp