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| hyper_ch | hmmmmm, did the launchpad ppa urls change? | 04:08 |
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| hyper_ch | e.g. I get 404 on https://ppa.launchpad.net/tiheum/equinox/ubuntu | 04:09 |
| wgrant | hyper_ch: http, not https | 06:22 |
| wgrant | https is for private PPAs. | 06:22 |
| hyper_ch | wgrant: when did that change? | 06:29 |
| hyper_ch | I've had it like this as bookmarks for ages | 06:29 |
| wgrant | hyper_ch: Literally never. | 06:30 |
| hyper_ch | owait | 06:30 |
| wgrant | You're not running something like HTTPS Everywhere, are you? | 06:30 |
| hyper_ch | I think that's it | 06:30 |
| hyper_ch | yeah, that's it... seems they change it now to https | 06:31 |
| hyper_ch | but then, why not use https by default | 06:31 |
| wgrant | HTTP and HTTPS provide different services on ppa.launchpad.net. | 06:32 |
| hyper_ch | like? | 06:34 |
| wgrant | HTTP is for public PPAs, and HTTPS is for private PPAs. | 06:34 |
| hyper_ch | but why not make everything https? | 06:35 |
| wgrant | Because that's not how things were done initially, and there's very little reason to change that now. | 06:35 |
| wgrant | PPAs are authenticated by OpenPGP signatures, not HTTPS, so HTTPS provides very little benefit to public PPAs. | 06:35 |
| wgrant | And it prevents proxies from caching them. | 06:35 |
| hyper_ch | little benefit? | 06:36 |
| hyper_ch | hmmm, I seem to remember that everybody says that it's important to know who connects to whom/what..... | 06:36 |
| hyper_ch | so using https would help here | 06:36 |
| wgrant | That's the sole benefit, yes. | 06:36 |
| wgrant | But it doesn't prevent attackers from knowing that you connected to ppa.launchpad.net. Just precisely what you downloaded. | 06:37 |
| hyper_ch | so that's a good reason | 06:37 |
| wgrant | It is something that may change in the future. | 06:37 |
| hyper_ch | anyway, thx for clearing this up... I guess I need to make an exception to https | 06:37 |
| cjwatson | LP will be offline for a few seconds shortly for a database schema upgrade. | 13:45 |
| ricotz | hello, please take a look at https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/265701 | 14:53 |
| cjwatson | (DB upgrade complete) | 14:53 |
| cjwatson | ricotz: No need to ping us on IRC, those of us who can do such things are subscribed to answers.lp.net/launchpad so get them by mail | 14:54 |
| cjwatson | as it happens that's not one of the things I can do, but I expect William will be around shortly :) | 14:54 |
| ricotz | cjwatson, sorry, I wanted to minimize the delay, since I already uploaded new package and noticed the space got exceeded :\ | 14:55 |
| ricotz | wgrant, thanks! | 14:58 |
| wgrant | Ah, hi. | 14:58 |
| wgrant | Yes, done. | 14:58 |
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