Some links on /download-ontology/ behave poorly (HTTPS and browser parsing of files)

[kltm]

To duplicate, if I go to

https://geneontology.org/docs/download-ontology/

and click on the first link ("Download go-basic.obo file", https://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/go-basic.obo), things download as expected.

If I click on the third link ("Download go.owl file", https://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go.owl), my browser gets caught up trying to download and parse it, which makes it look like it's just "spinning" without progress. This is expected, but worth noting; maybe a note to users that they should right-click.

Due to the way that PURLs are setup right now, the redirect chain goes through:

https://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go.owl
http://current.geneontology.org/ontology/go.owl

which then "upgrades" in the browser to

https://current.geneontology.org/ontology/go.owl

This change of http to https after a redirect in the browser can cause complaint about the download being insecure.

Is there any reason not to change the PURL to just be HTTPS? (https://github.com/OBOFoundry/purl.obolibrary.org/blob/master/config/go.yml)

[suzialeksander]

I'm in support of anything that will make the links/downloads work better. I think we even had some users request HTTPS although I can't remember exactly which URLs they asked about.

No complaints against the change from me.