Re: [PATCH v2] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: Documentation/admin-guide

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Sun Jul 05 2020 - 16:13:19 EST


On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 09:29:35 +0200
"Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 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>

Applied, thanks.

jon