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

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Tue Jul 14 2020 - 04:40:37 EST


"Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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>
> ---
> Better?

When you submit a new version of the patch you should mark it as v2 and
add a changelog what changed since v1, see link below for more. But this
is for the future, no need to resend because of this.

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