Show Idle (>14 d.) Chans


← 2021-02-12 | 2021-02-14 →
16:06 adlai is there no way to politely tell an HTTP 301 parrot to fuck off with the TLS and serve the insecure static page over HTTP?
16:07 * adlai has spent the past monomaniac fixnum count of ticks asking search engines this question, and repeatedly everything misinterprets the question as "how to request HTTPS", "how to avoid protocol downgrade attacks", etc
16:08 adlai one result for configuring the server, although that is also not what I asked
16:08 adlai it's amazing how useless search engines are, sometimes. helpfully useless and ever so optimistic.
16:10 adlai of course one can simply not follow the 300-level redirects, although somehow I suspect that servers are deaf to that
16:12 shinohai http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-02-13#1031522 <<< it be so decreed that HTTP 301 parrots fuck off and go to https://imgur.com/H5Ahsc2
16:12 snsabot Logged on 2021-02-13 16:06:12 adlai: is there no way to politely tell an HTTP 301 parrot to fuck off with the TLS and serve the insecure static page over HTTP?
16:17 * adlai was hoping for an HTTP request header, along the lines of "Accept-Methods: HTTP", that simply declares a refusal to use TLS
16:22 shinohai Ahh so something more along lines of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9SMUzj-_4Q
16:23 shinohai so all TLS stone ded
16:34 * adlai actually has no opposition to some form of site encryption ! yet shouldn't it be possible to prefix a request with "don't bother negotiating encryption and authentication, Herr Goebbles reads over my shoulder, and I can't afford to melt my computer with thermite between each time he blinks"
16:45 verisimilitude Try using wget, adlai.
16:45 verisimilitude I'm routinely surprised at how terrible the WWW browser HTTP clients are.
16:50 adlai the man page doesn't list any option for refusing https, only for running it unverified
16:52 adlai it's probably the kind of request that would fall stillborn in any modern standards committee, what with the whole "encrypt everything" fashion
16:52 adlai so, I am not terribly surprised that there are no headers for declaring this; although, still mildly so!
17:04 trinque likely gotta recompile without.
← 2021-02-12 | 2021-02-14 →