From: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>
To: "Andreas Vögele" <andreas@andreasvoegele.com>
Cc: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: check environment variable HTTPS in cgi.c
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 16:17:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170318151716.GB52684@athene.usta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6622063-a6e7-6877-eec8-cf3f2a1ca39b@andreasvoegele.com>
Hi,
Andreas Voegele wrote on Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 09:05:09AM +0100:
> currently the scheme is hard-coded to "http" in cgi.c.
And it will stay like that.
> The scheme could be set to "https" if the environment variable "HTTPS"
> is set to "on" by the web server.
Rejected. Minimizing the use of environment variables is among
the chief design goals of man.cgi(8). It's bad enough that we
can't avoid relying on PATH_INFO and QUERY_STRING.
Besides, https:// is pointless for man.cgi(8).
It is a read-only service, and publishing confidential
manuals would be an oxymoron.
Yours,
Ingo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-18 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-28 8:05 Andreas Vögele
2017-03-18 15:17 ` Ingo Schwarze [this message]
2017-03-18 15:48 ` Anthony J. Bentley
2017-03-18 16:53 ` Ingo Schwarze
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