Stream: IG creation
Topic: Canonical preference
Elliot Silver (Jan 12 2022 at 17:19):
Grahame Grieve said:
I just searched and I have 2.5 million uses of http://hl7.org in the java code base, the vast majority of which are name spaces and shouldn't use https, but some of which are know broken http accesses...
Is there a general guideline that canonicals should be http rather than https? Does it actually matter?
Grahame Grieve (Jan 12 2022 at 17:23):
I have mixed feelings about this. The fact that the address is different depending on one kind of access and others is the biggest disaster of http to me. And it interacts badly with namespaces / urns, where the literal representation matters, and http:... is not the same as https:...
Grahame Grieve (Jan 12 2022 at 17:23):
so it matters very greatly if you say that the namespace is http://hl7.org..., which we did, and was way to late to change later
Grahame Grieve (Jan 12 2022 at 17:24):
but namespaces usually don't include https:
Lloyd McKenzie (Jan 12 2022 at 19:28):
Also, once everything sort of automatically uses TLS regardless of URL (which I believe is the declared direction), declaring https is sort of meaningless noise.
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