HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road

Re:HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road by tomschlick on Monday May 22, 2017 @03:42PM (#14396354)

Side question: any plans for IPv6?

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Re:HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road by tepmoc on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @05:59AM (#14400053)

Here recent detailed answer from Nick

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/348223/stack-overfl...

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Re:HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road by alienth on Monday May 22, 2017 @06:56PM (#14397526)

Not any immediate plans. Decent amount of development is necessary there. There are so many places in our various systems that work with IP addresses, and many of them don't support v6 addresses.

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Re:HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road by ec109685 on Monday May 22, 2017 @07:04PM (#14397564)

One thing that places do is support IPv6 on the outside and translate to IPv4 calls in the next hop beyond the servers that sit beyond the edge.

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Re:HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road by astrodust on Monday May 22, 2017 @06:47PM (#14397487)

Given the scale of Stack Overflow, you'd think they could set up AAAA records that point to a proper TLS 1.3+ server and leave the peasants on IPv4 going to one that's more...accommodating.

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Re:HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road by Nick-Craver on Monday May 22, 2017 @07:38PM (#14397714)

We could - but the network side isn't the problem. There's a lot of logging, user banning, etc. pieces that need IPv6 love first. We just haven't had the time yet.

There are network bits we'd have to evaluate heavily as well, e.g. firewall rules - basically the very limited benefits don't make it a priority, yet. When things change there, we'll do it.

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