Bug#798033: www.debian.org: get.debian.org rejects HTTPS connections, but redirects to HTTPS site

The Wanderer <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Feb 2016 07:26:26 -0500

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On 2016-02-18 at 04:27, Niklas Edmundsson wrote:

>>>> * The Wanderer <[email protected]> [2015-09-04 12:17]:

>>>>> When I connect to http://get.debian.org/ in a Web browser, I
>>>>> am redirected to https://www.debian.org/CD/, which is a HTTPS
>>>>> site.
> 
> FYI, get.debian.org redirects to http://www.debian.org/CD/
> 
> I think the https stuff comes from the 
> https-was-previously-used-for-this-site-so-lets-enforce-it 
> site/browser feature, I forget what it's called...
> 
> So at least the confusion is not intentional on our part ;-)

The same redirection happens with wget:

$ wget http://get.debian.org/
--2016-02-29 07:19:52--  http://get.debian.org/
Resolving get.debian.org (get.debian.org)... 130.239.18.173,
130.239.18.165, 2001:6b0:e:2018::165, ...
Connecting to get.debian.org (get.debian.org)|130.239.18.173|:80...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://www.debian.org/CD/ [following]
--2016-02-29 07:19:52--  https://www.debian.org/CD/

So unless wget has a similar feature (which would rather surprise me,
particularly since I don't see one documented in the man page), I think
this is an unlikely explanation.

(For that matter, it also happens with lynx, for which I'd be even more
surprised if such a feature were present.)

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