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lowendbeholder
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Comment · 6 years ago
The loop argument makes no sense at all. HTTP is being used as a transport for a base64-encoded payload, the actual process of veryfing the validity of the developer certificate is done by the service behind that Apple URL - not by the HTTP stack.
There is no justification not to switch to HTTPS here.
There is no justification not to switch to HTTPS here.