Use https: for wikipedia links

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Dec 14 13:56:29 PST 2015


On 12/14/2015 1:43 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Monday, 14 December 2015 at 21:35:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> I see it does the redirect, and wonder as well if there's an advantage to
>> calling https directly.
>
> The end user saves a small amount of time by skipping the redirect.
>
> If it is trivial, I'd do it for the snappier load, but I wouldn't spend time
> actually worrying about it. (Besides, the load time of external sites isn't
> really our problem.)

Another advantage is that we'll know which sites support https:. I did some 
experimenting and was surprised at how few news sites support it, for example.


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