[pygtk] What happened to PyGTK website?

Dieter Verfaillie dieterv at optionexplicit.be
Thu Mar 10 05:05:58 WST 2011


On 09/03/2011 21:19, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> Makes sense - these are all hosted on the same host;  named based
> virtual hosting is for http:// only.

Yeah. But no, we're 2011 now: SNI enables name based
vhosts for https and yes it even works :) No idea if it's
implemented on the host that serves pygtk.org though...

> You did notice that
> https://www.pygtk.org produces a certificate error?  [since 
> 209.132.180.176 doesn't reverse to www.pygtk.org]. 

Yep, noticed that. Might just as well be a misconfiguration.
See above.

>  The simple solution
> [putting on my professional sys-admin hat] is not to use https:// when
> accessing PyGtk docs (and there is zero reason to encrypt access to
> public documentation).

Sure, except that does not prevent the casual unsuspecting
visitor from seeing unexpected results...

For reference: a quick search shows that rt.gnome.org is used
by the sysadmin team:
http://live.gnome.org/Sysadmin/RequestTracker

mvg,
Dieter


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