Update URLs

[jsoref]

Description

Generally https urls should be preferred over http urls.
Also, live urls should be preferred over dead ones.

Note that I tend to leave distinct changes as distinct commits as it makes it easier for me to drop things that groups don't like. I'm not attached to any of these individual changes, nor their structure. I'm happy to squash, although I prefer to do that after the changes are accepted (and I'm happier to let someone else squash and pick a commit message).

How Has This Been Tested?

I used a simple script that checked to see if it looked like pages were available via https:

check() { curl -I "$1"; curl -I "$(echo "$1" | perl -pe 's<http:><https:>')"; }

And had a handy script to update them if they did:

update() { rs "$1" "$(echo "$1" | perl -pe 's<http:><https:>')" "https"; }     

For a number of things that failed or provided redirects, I followed them.

Note that I left a handful of dead dangling links as http (and msys insists on using http, so...)

Types of changes

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
• Documentation change
• Test suite change

Checklist:

• I have read the CONTRIBUTING document.

[jsoref]

When a page wasn't reachable, I sometimes tried to find an archived version of the document. I didn't try for every page, and I have not done any checking on current https links -- that's beyond the scope of this PR.

[jsoref]

My tooling ignored everything after the #, so it's possible that it's no longer correct, but that shouldn't be a big deal (if someone wants to make further corrections, they're welcome to do so).

[jsoref]

Yes, I know that the text still says it's Trac and that it in fact is now in gitlab. I consciously chose not to update the text. The item was indeed articulated in Trac #1496, it just so happens that the resource now lives elsewhere.

If someone wants to rewrite the prose, they can.

[jsoref]

Yes, this blows the ascii art boundary. I'm not certain what people would prefer to do. URL wrapping is not a good thing. Even deleting all whitespaces wouldn't result in a url that fits...

[jsoref]

• maven/1/ is dead
• as is maven/2/

This url corresponds to maven/2/ -- I'm not sure if this is the right choice. My initial reaction was to just delete the line entirely.

[jsoref]

bintray is gone. They wanted to kill jcenter as well but too many people protested, so it has an indefinite reprieve.

[jsoref]

As noted earlier, the # suffixes are not updated. Updating the bits would require a lot of effort and I'd rather leave the human readable text than risk getting the update wrong.

[jsoref]

I'm not sure the url structure beyond /new. It's unfortunate that this information isn't current, I might have wanted to file bugs against these libraries.