Accessing freedesktop.org via HTTPS

[Sanel Zukan]

Devon Stewart <blast at hardchee.se> writes:
> Hello all!
>
> I just experienced something strange. I use https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere <https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere>; By default, freedesktop.org is not listed as a site that should have requests rewritten to the https variant, apparently due to the fact that it is broken.
>
> When attempting to access https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/machine-id.html, I get a 404 (with broken image URLs). Accessing http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/machine-id.html works fine, however.
>
> Is this something that should be fixed? It strikes me as being broken, but that might just be me.

The whole fd.o is broken, so this isn't something new. If you follow The
Rules, you should probably report this to Bugzilla
(https://bugs.freedesktop.org). No need to wait for reply as you either
will never get it or your bug _could_ be handled in the next 2-3 years.

The best solution to 'https everywhere' is to add exception to fd.o
site; if that isn't possible, wget-ing the content should be enough as
there is 99.99% of text and easy parsable html; images, css, pretty
content... well, that is obsolete here.

> Thanks,
> -Devon

Best,
Sanel