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

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Jul 06 2020 - 16:23:23 EST


From: "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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