How to tell MW that I want to use the HTTPS version?

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Strainu

20 Jul 2012 20 Jul '12

12:56 p.m.

Hi, For about as long as they've been around, I've been using the HTTPS urls for Wikipedia and sister projects. Right now, there is basically no way I'm leaving the secure site, with one exception: the email messages I receive when I have a new message or when a watched page changes. This is annoying, because I'm not signed in on HTTP and I cannot track those visits. Is there any way I can "tell" MW I want to receive emails with the https urls? If not, is there at least a bug for that? Thanks, Strainu

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Chad

20 Jul 20 Jul

1:10 p.m.

New subject: How to tell MW that I want to use the HTTPS version?

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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It's because the URLs are based on who was using the wiki at the time and caused the e-mail to be generated. If I'm using HTTP, you'll get an HTTP e-mail. Really, we should probably make this always fall back on HTTPS when it exists. -Chad

Roan Kattouw

7:21 p.m.

New subject: How to tell MW that I want to use the HTTPS version?

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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It's because the URLs are based on who was using the wiki at the time and caused the e-mail to be generated. If I'm using HTTP, you'll get an HTTP e-mail.

This is no longer true, I fixed this about a year ago. E-mail notifications now use the canonical URL, which is based on $wgCanonicalServer. By default (and on the WMF cluster), this is HTTP. We can't just use the recipient's protocol because there is no protocol preference. Roan

MZMcBride

1:15 p.m.

New subject: How to tell MW that I want to use the HTTPS version?

Strainu wrote:

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For about as long as they've been around, I've been using the HTTPS urls for Wikipedia and sister projects. Right now, there is basically no way I'm leaving the secure site, with one exception: the email messages I receive when I have a new message or when a watched page changes. This is annoying, because I'm not signed in on HTTP and I cannot track those visits. Is there any way I can "tell" MW I want to receive emails with the https urls? If not, is there at least a bug for that?

In the time you took to write this e-mail, you could've just searched Bugzilla for "https". :-) I believe you're looking for these days: * "Resolution of protocol-independent URLs for email messages should be based on preference of the receiver" <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29878> * "User preference for HTTP vs HTTPS while logged in" <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29898> * "Notification emails should link to https, not http" <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32769> As others have noted, you can use the "HTTPS Everywhere" extension for Firefox or Chrome to mitigate this issue. MZMcBride

Strainu

8:29 p.m.

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2012/7/20 MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com>om>:

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In the time you took to write this e-mail, you could've just searched Bugzilla for "https". :-)

Point taken!

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I believe you're looking for these days: * "Resolution of protocol-independent URLs for email messages should be based on preference of the receiver" <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29878> * "User preference for HTTP vs HTTPS while logged in" <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29898> * "Notification emails should link to https, not http" <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32769>

A lot of bugs for a single problem :) Well, 2 actually, I'm sure the HTTP/S option would have other uses too.

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As others have noted, you can use the "HTTPS Everywhere" extension for Firefox or Chrome to mitigate this issue.

Only if you use those browsers, if you can install the extension and if your link actually opens in a browser. Lots of ifs for an enterprise environment, I would say. Thanks all for the responses, anyway. Strainu

Krinkle

4:35 p.m.

New subject: How to tell MW that I want to use the HTTPS version?

That would be https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/29898. See also: * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36456 On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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