Forum:HTTPS on interwiki links

Now that Wikipedia et al finally have proper HTTPS support, naturally the first thing I did (well, one of the first...) was to come here and test the interwiki prefix, to see if Wikia has updated any of the interwiki URLs for HTTPS yet. wikipedia: has been updated (as well as, interestingly enough ^^ ), but a number of others still use HTTP:


 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * hewikisource:
 * 

And, for good measure...
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * kmwiki:
 * 

has been updated to use HTTPS, but it seems whoever did so goofed - it creates links to the nonexistent bugzilla.wikipedia.org, instead of bugzilla.wikimedia.org.

Lastly, https://www.wikia.com doesn't work (Google Chrome shows an SSL error - "You attempted to reach www.wikia.com, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as *.a.ssl.fastly.net."); is this a misconfiguration somewhere or something deeper? 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 04:37, October 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * I've tagged this for staff attention, currently no interwikis on the table use https, I don't know if that's likely to change. As far as TLS on Wikia.com, I don't think that exists at the moment (although it's something I wouldn't mind seeing in the near future. --  Random Time  06:06, October 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that; I don't hang out on Central enough to have known to do so myself. ;) 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 06:53, October 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * I am curious why one would use SSL for a wiki tough. Why you want secure connection for something which is opensource and freely available.
 * FOSS and SSL have nothing to do with each other in that sense; it's all about having a secure connection to the server, helping to prevent such things as session hijacking (which is very very bad if you have a privilege account, e.g. admins). 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 18:06, October 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * Indeed, especially with the advent of firesheep - I'd quite like to be able to run with HTTPs wherever I am if I'm on public wifi. --  Random Time  18:11, October 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * Indeed, especially with the advent of firesheep - I'd quite like to be able to run with HTTPs wherever I am if I'm on public wifi. --  Random Time  18:11, October 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * That is a very strange way to look at privacy. The content is important to be protected but privacy has more to it. The state of the connection is also private (the cookies are a part of that) and also the fact that you accessed the information is private, for example, I'm sure you would consider your access to gay-match-maker.com a private matter and not just the content of the connection.
 * 22:29, October 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * With the advent of better HTTPS sign-in methods on our service, creating more HTTPS-enabled features on Wikia is on the docket in the not too distant future. But unfortunately, interwiki link tables will not be updated until our engineers are able to determine what the proper ways and locations on Wikia that HTTPS will be used. --daNASCAT http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (help forum | blog) 21:00, October 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * Cool beans. Would there be a problem with MediaWiki:Interwiki mapbeing updated with HTTPS URLs where appropriate in the meantime? 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 23:37, October 4, 2011 (UTC)