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

From: Rich Felker
Date: Sun Jul 12 2020 - 19:39:54 EST


On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 06:30:04AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 7/12/20 6:11 AM, Alexander A. Klimov wrote:
> > Rationale:
> > Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
> > as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.
>
> Trimmed just to the one site without the self-signed certficate: check.
>
> > 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>
>
> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rich Felker <dalias@xxxxxxxx>

I agree about replacing just the one with working https, not the dead
self-signed one. Alexander, is this whole set being submitted upstream
through a single maintainer, or do you want me to take the arch/sh
patch individually?

Rich