From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 2 20:36:42 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 827796B7 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2015 20:36:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qg0-x229.google.com (mail-qg0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c04::229]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3603CFFC for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2015 20:36:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qgh3 with SMTP id 3so79521872qgh.2 for ; Thu, 02 Apr 2015 13:36:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=M7dPJK3gkxhBXa8TtjSjeH8H6ZUKKlZ22S7ux9oF//o=; b=FUSpG2Uuh6tzubkEFXRYwgF52ds2Lm1nUFIjlLsb1iVKtpov+UxlGgJHqizlayhsi0 zXO/dTVdArlQHmbIiEluiRprq2NulHYmCyLKg5ce5azo8FFIW5hh63PcHfK80f+M3eAJ UNKwR7xKKEN67OtLNSuLZTbtLOl1Mv7uHpuJWAf7KLvvUWUtD2Hi5feMONh1ATds/By+ pBoDWAvjKvVJufu4h1/VFaDEsKmZziKCAF25p+mU/C+ptjNCK9DVb3Kbj3/yBPpQPPXo bBCRym5HqlX0YUmpct0rhpyb/RnxLDyWB44nM1CBOH8Ltoj5LeSqmHq1KbaYvfwVYGGN mQKg== X-Received: by 10.140.194.204 with SMTP id p195mr65149146qha.21.1428007001213; Thu, 02 Apr 2015 13:36:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([209.181.150.218]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id 133sm2156517qhu.15.2015.04.02.13.36.39 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 02 Apr 2015 13:36:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <551DA84D.8030205@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:36:29 -0600 From: jd1008 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does FreeBSD insist on https? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 20:36:42 -0000 On 04/02/2015 02:26 PM, Dieter BSD wrote: > Why do so many FreeBSD URLs redirect from http to https? > What is this intended to accomplish? > > This is user-hostile. Some browsers cannot do https, and there are > good reasons (unrelated to http vs https) to use these browsers. > There are also good reasons to prefer http over https even with a browser > that can do https. Https is useful when needed, but it isn't needed here. > > Can someone *please* fix this? https prevents intermediate hop points (such as your isp) from looking at the page content, or at the terms of your search. But that does not prevent them from seeing the url. Also, which browser are you using? Firefox will use http unless it has been recompiled by the by wherever you got it from (the distro repos??) to always use https.Or your browser might have a plugin or add-on that always forces https.