Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read

[Yang Yu <yang.yu.list () gmail com>]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 4:17 AM Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf () dessus com> wrote:
> I am curious -- what exactly are those "obvious reasons"?  (And for the record HTTP *IS* being used, it is just being 
> tunneled inside a TLS connection).

For a popular site, it would be doing a disservice to its customers by
not using HTTPS, even for static content.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/foci15/foci15-paper-marczak.pdf