Add a note that recommends alternative packages which support HTTPS

[sjakobi]

See #105.

[sjakobi]

Thanks! Would you mind making a release (or revision) too, so the warning becomes visible?

[hsenag]

Done (along with a suggestion from @hvr), though the markdown doesn't work on hackage so it looks a bit messed up :-( http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HTTP

[hvr]

@hsenag right... lemme fixup the markup for you... gimme a sec

[hvr]

@hsenag fixed (mostly -- except for the boldface markup, but that's something that'll be fixed in hackage soonish), see http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HTTP-4000.3.5/revisions/ (and #107)

I totally missed that markdown syntax was used instead of the proper haddock syntax for the links... btw, this is something that uploading as a package candidate is great for (and cabal 2.0 will default to upload as candidate), as there you can preview how the package description will get rendered

[hsenag]

@hvr: Thanks!

[sjakobi]

I totally missed that markdown syntax was used instead of the proper haddock syntax for the links...

Oh, sorry guys. Haddock supports the markdown hyperlink syntax, so I thought that Hackage would support it too… Also thanks for adding the recommendation for http-streams – I wasn't aware of that package!

[hvr]

@sjakobi I actually forgot that Haddock learned that syntax (albeit it seems imperfect, as it gets confused about the 2nd occurence of the markdown url-ref (i.e. it looks like "http-client (in combination with [http-client-tls](http:/hackage.haskell.orgpackage/http-client-tls) )" when I try the original .cabal revision)

So your expectaction was actually justified; Hackage is supposed to support 99.9% of the markup Haddock supports in .cabal files.