Re:My new favorite vim/tmux bug (2014)
by q3k on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @01:38PM
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> In what way are they a broken concept?
Because it's blindly following an inadequate heuristic, and not gracefully degrading if it fails - instead, you get comments like these blaming the author. Even though the author never wanted you to use HTTPS in the first place.
> What justification is there for serving HTTPS in a way users can't expect to consume?
Plenty of technical reasons (eg. what the sibling comments mentioned), but most importantly: there's no Internet/Web standard that I'm aware of which would prohibit me from doing so.
Because it's blindly following an inadequate heuristic, and not gracefully degrading if it fails - instead, you get comments like these blaming the author. Even though the author never wanted you to use HTTPS in the first place.
> What justification is there for serving HTTPS in a way users can't expect to consume?
Plenty of technical reasons (eg. what the sibling comments mentioned), but most importantly: there's no Internet/Web standard that I'm aware of which would prohibit me from doing so.