[Rd] HTTPS warning on developer.r-project.org

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Simon Urbanek 
>>>>>     on Wed, 22 May 2019 11:54:49 -0400 writes:

    > More to the point: the custom search function is currently broken anyway - it just gives me 404.
    > Should we just get rid of it? If people want to use Google they can just say

    > site:developer.r-project.org foo

the problem is that > 99.5% of the users do not know the

    site:<server>  * 

trick ...



    >> On May 22, 2019, at 1:08 AM, Paul Menzel <pmenzel using molgen.mpg.de> wrote:
    >> 
    >> [Please CC me on replies, as I am not subscribed.]
    >> 
    >> Dear R folks,
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Accessing the *R Developer Page* [1], the browser (Firefox) shows an HTTPS warning.
    >> 
    >> The reason is the embedded Google logo.
    >> 
    >>> Gemischte (unsichere) Anzeige-Inhalte von "http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_40wht.gif" werden auf einer sicheren Seite geladen
    >> Could you change that to an HTTPS link please?
    >> 
    >> ```
    >> $ curl -I https://www.google.com/logos/Logo_40wht.gif
    >> HTTP/2 200
    >> accept-ranges: bytes
    >> content-type: image/gif
    >> content-length: 3845
    >> date: Wed, 22 May 2019 05:07:35 GMT
    >> expires: Wed, 22 May 2019 05:07:35 GMT
    >> cache-control: private, max-age=31536000
    >> last-modified: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 01:00:57 GMT
    >> x-content-type-options: nosniff
    >> server: sffe
    >> x-xss-protection: 0
    >> alt-svc: quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="46,44,43,39"
    >> 
    >> ```
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Kind regards,
    >> 
    >> Paul
    >> 
    >> 
    >> [1]: https://developer.r-project.org/
    >> 
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