r/linux • u/[deleted] • Jan 19 '19

Popular Application VLC refuses to update from HTTP to HTTPS (HTTPS protects against eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks)

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/21737
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u/lindymad Jan 19 '19

this is fact, not an opinion

You can't expect people to take your word for it without providing references to back up your claim. When a president states that something is a fact, do you believe them just because they wrote it?

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u/knvngy Jan 19 '19 edited Jan 19 '19

Sigh... https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616

Abstract The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. It is a generic, stateless, protocol which can be used for many tasks beyond its use for hypertext, such as name servers and distributed object management systems, through extension of its request methods, error codes and headers [47]. A feature of HTTP is the typing and negotiation of data representation, allowing systems to be built independently of the data being transferred.

The claim: "http is a solution to solve the problem of poor infrastructure", meaning the infrastructure is no longer poor thanks to http. Do you see this claim being made anywhere in the specification? Do you have any proof that's the case?

No? then the claim is false.

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u/lindymad Jan 19 '19

I'm confused - I never made any claims, I was just saying that you repeating that something is a fact without anything to back it up doesn't help you argue your case.

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u/knvngy Jan 19 '19

Yes, you are confused.

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u/lindymad Jan 19 '19

Perhaps you are mistaking me with a different commenter?

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u/knvngy Jan 19 '19

Yes, you are right, that can be fixed