[Dev] Link used by GNU.org

André Silva emulatorman at riseup.net
Tue Mar 10 15:43:17 GMT 2015


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On 03/10/2015 11:16 AM, Icarious wrote:
>> GNU.org's list of free distros ([1]) links to 
>> http://www.parabola.nu/https/, which is the explanation for the 
>> "untrusted site" warning for the HTTPS version.
>> 
>> I am a webmaster for GNU.org and we've recently received a
>> request to change the link to https://www.parabola.nu . But
>> before doing that, we must reach a consensus (as suggested by
>> Emulatorman).
>> 
>> To which page should GNU.org link, http://www.parabola.nu/https/
>> or https://www.parabola.nu? Thank you.
>> 
>> [1]: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
>> 
> 
> I think that the default http page exists for a valid reason. Not
> every OS/ GNU Distribution ships with the CAcert package (Arch
> deprecated support few months back and I don't know about others).
> Also FSDG distributions like Trisquel doesn't ship that package
> either. So if we change the default page to
> https://www.parabola.nu, then the visitor will bump across a scary
> "This Connection is Untrusted" error and will have no explanation
> as to the reason behind that error and how to bypass the error,
> making s/he believe that the site is untrustworthy. The current
> default page provides an explanation and possible work around to
> bypass that error.
> 
> -1 to the change.
> 
Could we resolve that problem using another certificate for our page
like Trisquel does?
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