Question: why must port 80 be used? (why not SSL)

[siebertm]

Additionally, glghproxy MUST operate on tcp/80.

I understand the what, but this means that we have unencrypted traffic going around, which we obviously don't like.

I dont understand the why though, can you elaborate a bit more on that? And - more importantly - what would be needed to allow at least default SSL port to work, so we can use TLS?

[cpfeiffer]

It needs some patches to enable SSL verification, but it works just fine then. You can find the changes in https://github.com/GEBIT/gitlab-github-proxy/tree/GEBIT, if you are interested.

[dka23]

I'm happy to accept any merge requests to change this. When I first developed this thing, adding SSL just seemed to be an additional overhead.