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Change mirror request URLs from HTTP to HTTPS #52

Open societal-sandpaper opened 2 years ago

societal-sandpaper commented 2 years ago

Change mirror request URLs to HTTPS to prevent MITM spiers, and even potential malicious actors performing MITM substitution attacks from performing such attacks. In 2022, this is a bare-minimum change; HTTP without SSL has been insecure and bad practice for over a decade.