[PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: IPv*

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Mon Jul 6 20:23:19 UTC 2020


From: "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster at al2klimov.de>
Date: Mon,  6 Jul 2020 19:38:50 +0200

> Rationale:
> Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
> as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.
> 
> Deterministic algorithm:
> For each file:
>   If not .svg:
>     For each line:
>       If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
>         For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
>           If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
>           return 200 OK and serve the same content:
>             Replace HTTP with HTTPS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster at al2klimov.de>

Applied to net-next, thank you very much for doing this.



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