Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 16:51:36 -0400 From: Maxim Khitrov <max@mxcrypt.com> To: Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why does FreeBSD insist on https? Message-ID: <CAJcQMWfAKn3M0zOz5r0YfHPC1mZ1L2e7dKwE1LWKwDeTt4Yamg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAA3ZYrD_2AaDfW3oJ-NFt333DrjOwgBR-8bbqH0eVZGL6Y_5WQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAA3ZYrD_2AaDfW3oJ-NFt333DrjOwgBR-8bbqH0eVZGL6Y_5WQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@gmail.com> 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://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/china-uses-unencrypted-websites-to-hijack-browsers-in-github-attack
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