Post tagged: https

Automatically rewriting links to use HTTPS on Wikimedia sites

In March 2018, Facebook began automatically rewriting links to use HTTPS using the HSTS preload list. Now all Wikimedia sites (including Wikipedia) do the same.

If you're not familiar with it, the HSTS preload list tells browsers (and other clients) that the website should only be visited over HTTPS, not …

Requiring HTTPS for my Toolforge tools

My Toolforge (formerly "Tool Labs") tools will now start requiring HTTPS, and redirecting any HTTP traffic. It's a little bit of common code for each tool, so I put it in a shared "toolforge" library.

from flask import Flask
import toolforge

app = Flask(__name__)
app.before_request(toolforge.redirect_to_https)

And that's …