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…
In other #HTTPS news, a feature to automatically rewrite HTTP links on #Wikipedia to HTTPS (using domains on the HSTS preload list) just landed on our beta cluster. Full production rollout coming soon.More details: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200745
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 it! Your tool…
