www/175685: HTTPS does not follow visitor among FreeBSD.org sub-domains

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, Remko Lodder wrote:

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> On 24 Feb 2014, at 19:30, Allan Jude <freebsd at allanjude.com> wrote:
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>> The following reply was made to PR www/175685; it has been noted by GNATS.
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>> From: Allan Jude <freebsd at allanjude.com>
>> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
>> Cc:
>> Subject: Re: www/175685: HTTPS does not follow visitor among FreeBSD.org sub-domains
>> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:25:42 -0500
>>
>> Another method that has become common in recent years is
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>> <a href="//www.freebsd.org/blah/blah">
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>> Which will keep the current protocol, be that HTTP or HTTPS
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>> Although I am not sure how some of the more basic browsers like lynx
>> might handle that. Google et all use it for including javascript to
>> avoid 'mixed content?.
>
> Cool. That would solve the problem here as well. To what degree should
> we support the ?lynx?es out there and cli based browsers ?

Is there an example page we can test?  Maybe this is already supported 
by some.