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Re:“Users will only be able to view patents via HTTP. HTTPS ... by ronsor on Saturday April 22, 2017 @01:30PM (#14173595)
If you look at the url, you notice they are using CGI and Win32 EXEs
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Re:“Users will only be able to view patents via HTTP. HTTPS ... by TheDong on Saturday April 22, 2017 @08:54PM (#14175799)
You can't know that.

It could have been redeveloped in anything, but kept the original url scheme for backwards compatibility.

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Re:“Users will only be able to view patents via HTTP. HTTPS ... by anticedent on Saturday April 22, 2017 @10:19PM (#14176096)
Oh, come now. Whether he can or cannot know such a thing is however many angels, dancing on the head of a pin.

Do you honestly believe anything this terrible went through a rewrite? I sure don't.

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Re:“Users will only be able to view patents via HTTP. HTTPS ... by dbenhur on Sunday April 23, 2017 @11:46PM (#14181835)
I know! I takes at least three rewrites to make it that terrible.
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Re:“Users will only be able to view patents via HTTP. HTTPS ... by shakethemonkey on Sunday April 23, 2017 @01:02AM (#14176610)
The URLs in question have no backwards compatibility, by design.
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