Re: [PATCH v2] CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Thu Jul 23 2020 - 16:54:40 EST


On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 19:55:28 +0200
"Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ationale:
> 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>
> ---
> Undone also three more URLs.
>
> â linux git:(https-links/46) â git diff --color-words --word-diff-regex=. -U0
> diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
> index e5267acb98e0..32ee70a7562e 100644

Applied.

jon