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Eyrie Productions, Unlimited
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Jun-07-22, 05:13 AM (EDT) |
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3. "RE: HTTPS links (was re: WH40K nerdery)"
In response to message #1
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>Do not websites redirect incoming http:// requests to HTTPS if they >won't serve them clear? It seems like that should have been an >automatic requirement for the changeover, but what do I know, I got >out of that business decades ago. > HTTPS is so old that people still thought it was a sensible use of scarce resources to treat https://example.com/ as an entirely different namespace to http://example.com/ ; and the idea that everything should be served over https didn't come around until a lot more recently at which point it was too late to insist it was just http only with extra encryption on top. Basically "we fucked up again", story of the internet it seems :-D L. |
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