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From: Maxim Khitrov <max@mxcrypt.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 16:51:36 -0400
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Subject: Re: Why does FreeBSD insist on https?
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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