[Talk-GB] Hello world and automated change proposal: Add missing URL scheme on UK's Pubs websites

[Dave F]

On 28/09/2020 15:29, Rodrigo Díez Villamuera wrote:
> Thanks all of you for your messages.
>
> As a new joiner, I could not ask for more than other members engaging 
> in such a passionate way :)
>
> It's fair to say that there is no clear consensus of whether the 
> proposal, in its current form, is acceptable or not. So, I am going to 
> create a voting section on the wiki page to help us visualise what 
> people think
>
> However, before I do that I would like to reply to a point that was 
> made by Andy
>
> Andy,
>
> /I'm not actually convinced that's a problem - as others have said, 
> *web browsers are perfectly capable of converting "www.mypub.com 
> <http://www.mypub.com>" into either "https://www.mypub.com" 
> <https://www.mypub.com>or ""http://www.mypub.com" 
> <http://www.mypub.com>as appropriate*, so this doesn't really add any 
> value. "Letting the browser sort it out" is a great approach as it can 
> deal with now/near future things such as removal TLS 1.0 and 1.1 
> support as well./
>
> This is not true based on my experience. I just tested on the latest 
> version of Chrome and Firefox and, if the URL scheme is not specified, 
> they both open the the URL using http even if https is also available 
> for it.

An example is Overpass Turbo which has three different pages:
https://overpass-turbo.eu/
http://overpass-turbo.eu/
www.overpass-turbo.eu/

If you've previously run different routines on each you'll see it 
displays them for each URL (tested on Firefox latest)

DaveF

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