[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #40416: Use HTTPS in wp_dashboard_primary()

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#40416: Use HTTPS in wp_dashboard_primary()
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 Reporter:  iandunn         |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement     |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Administration  |    Version:
 Severity:  normal          |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                  |
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 The feed URLs for news and popular plugins are still using HTTP.

 From #27115, it sounds like they initially weren't converted to HTTPS
 because [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/27115#comment:4 some
 servers don't support outgoing SSL connections], and at the time w.org did
 not redirect HTTP -> HTTPS.

 Both of those URLs `301` redirect to HTTPS URLs now, so I can't think of
 any reason to leave them as HTTP. The URL for the Planet feed was set to
 HTTPS in r29787, even though [https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/634
 Planet doesn't redirect to HTTPS yet], so that seems like further
 precedent to update this.

 The popular plugins URL was redirecting 3 times until it finally got to
 the new URL in the patch, so this should be a bit faster too.

 The popular plugins aren't currently shown with the old or new URLs,
 because of meta:#2723. It seems like it might be fine to continue with the
 change to HTTPS, though, since it's broken anyway, and it should start
 working once the Meta ticket is fixed.

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