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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2017-09-16 13:03:36 -0700
committerMathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>2017-09-19 13:10:44 +0200
commit3562e384f43bbd9d48598904a82a792039f4ce33 (patch)
tree0a45d82621c6ef569a78a80ff9deca518aeac56b /t/aclocal-macrodir.tap
parent29408e8b1d6efec3a416a761742e5cceae381d19 (diff)
downloadautomake-3562e384f43bbd9d48598904a82a792039f4ce33.tar.gz
Prefer https: URLs
In Gnulib, Emacs, etc. we are changing ftp: and http: URLs to use https:, to discourage man-in-the-middle attacks when downloading software. The attached patch propagates these changes upstream to Automake. This patch does not affect files that Automake is downstream of, which I'll patch separately. Althouth the resources are not secret, plain HTTP is vulnerable to malicious routers that tamper with responses from GNU servers, and this sort of thing is all too common when people in some other countries browse US-based websites. See, for example: Aceto G, Botta A, Pescapé A, Awan MF, Ahmad T, Qaisar S. Analyzing internet censorship in Pakistan. RTSI 2016. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2016.7740626 HTTPS is not a complete solution here, but it can be a significant help. The GNU project regularly serves up code to users, so we should take some care here.
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
# Several tests on the use of the m4 macro AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR with
# aclocal. See also related test 'aclocal-macrodir.tap'.