User:Eighty5cacao/misc/MoS-Linking thoughts

When should external links be HTTPS?
(working title)

Are protocol-relative links to parts of Pin Eight outside the wiki desirable?

Canonical URLs
HTTPS Everywhere rules (if not buggy), server redirection to HTTPS, and HSTS should take precedence over canonical URLs, due to lazy webmasters not changing the canonical URL when they implement HTTPS support.

The above discussion concerns only http-vs.-https discrepancies between the canonical URL attribute and the actual URL on which the editor has chosen to view the page. Editors should generally honor canonical URLs in cases where the discrepancy is unrelated to protocol, unless popularity in reliable sources argues otherwise for a particular link.