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http://dumps.wikimedia.org should redirect to https://dumps.wikimedia.org

There seems to be no reason why this shouldn't happen with the adequate announcement.

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Has once been declared "won't fix" on https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Httpsless_domains in the past.

Adding @ArielGlenn. Remember that discussion?

@ArielGlenn Hello! Really curious about the document that Daniel pointed out above.. Is it impossible to serve dumps only from https?

Change 278861 had a related patch set uploaded (by ArielGlenn):
https redirect for dumps.wikimedia.org

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/278861

I remember there was a discussion and I don't remember why it was wontfixed then. But we can surely do it now. How do we usually handle these announcements, what lead time etc? I'm happy to send one around.

Some past tasks:

The later had:

https://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/

Results in a certificate warning due to it serving a cert for dumps.wikimedia.org

I'm sending mail to wikitech-l announcing that the switch will go live Monday (Apr 4).

Change 278861 merged by ArielGlenn:
https redirect for dumps.wikimedia.org

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/278861

with collaboration with elukey this is done.