Uses https for non SSL links

[michael-n-cooper]

Using the "Save as XHTML 5 (Source)" with Firefox 19, observed most recently on https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/IndieUI/raw-file/tip/src/indie-ui-events.html but have seen on other Respec-based documents as well.

The link to the required CSS for W3C specs, and the source for the W3C logo, are output with an https URI, but these are non-SSL resources and should be http URIs. For instance the style link for a Working Draft comes out as https://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/TR/W3C-WD, but it should be http://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/TR/W3C-WD; the icon source is https://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home when it should be http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home. This causes some Pubrules checks to fail.

[marcoscaceres]

XHTML is deprecated, no? Is there any reason why you are using it?

[michael-n-cooper]

I really hope this issue doesn't start a new existential debate about the value of XHTML, nor would I expect the fact that I used XHTML to be behind this particular issue. Whether Respec should support XHTML was debated at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/spec-prod/2013JanMar/thread.html#msg13; I gave my own views at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/spec-prod/2013JanMar/0014.html; and since Respec continues to support it I prefer to use it. It would introduce other problems for me to remove that support, but that is a different issue than the one I filed here.

[darobin]

That's not an XHTML-related problem anyway. That said, if this causes pubrules problems then it's a bug in pubrules. We tried being smart about which scheme to use here, but the only option that produces no problems is to enforce https.

So this requires a fix in pubrules (I thought it had been fixed already, but maybe not completely).

Unrelated but: Firefox 19 is a bit out of date!