[MLB-WIRELESS] Melbourne Wireless site and SSL.

[Daniel Carosone]

> There have been differing opinions between the dev teams and committee
regarding if the site should be moved to https (SSL encrypted) only.
>
> It is my personal belief that in this day and age that everything that
can be secure in transit is configured so that it is. Google etc seem to
feel the same - as all of their services are available via https (yes, even
YouTube!).
>

Yes, available by https..

Some old arguments against, like fear of excessive cpu, are unfounded.
Those are not the only reasons.

> I'd like to get the opinion of the list into if Melbourne Wireless should
default to https access to the site - thereby reaping the benefits of SSL.
Existing non-ssl access (ie via http://www.melbournewireless.org.au) will
be redirected to the secure version of the same content.
>

Unavailable by http - that's not the same thing.

> This has the up side that by default, everything on the site will be
secure from eavesdropping on unsecured connections. A side benefit is that
it will also consolidate all our domains within various search engines -
increasing our ranking.
>

Careful with that axe, Eugene.

It's my understanding that search engines do not generally index ssl
content. This from when I was suggesting we do something similar for a new
bank a few years back.

So if you care about that, think again.
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