From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 2 21:43:37 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 9D15F456 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2015 21:43:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x231.google.com (mail-ig0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::231]) (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 6003BAC5 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2015 21:43:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by igcau2 with SMTP id au2so56159437igc.1 for ; Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:43:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=content-type:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:date :subject:from:in-reply-to:references:to; bh=EQGWZE4aUzO2ecIb+NMGAEMvgAVGvSRsw1YozsPbwCk=; b=icAcntOSH2xFMLgXqA7p8wUNwMqQ6G0W6N5vNzWe3OcC6ReQle6iheTYhIOk4qgt11 +JiiKSt27c8dqH6YG3MNfOpmWGQl2h+/kcxJsktxK8pZ/dUiG8/4sizD8iTIjY9sEUvf isjyZseYx4b00R+fVR/3BlTn86hQqNzI6uF5BQ17l4q3uDZxoeItyAvA4+XU7po7dmGj uF7R/4aC48sC9PHeuUCib8ZnGCwfm33fI2WYiAoUDqrmlTZ/+4p0ylL9acFahr6FkPNJ 8ev0RfzJyebJx0DwskalNR2lVJEx5+EaIMNb36YJiIMGL0KIetvu44h0NJlCUgiTr92N JHTQ== X-Received: by 10.50.6.4 with SMTP id w4mr23783753igw.36.1428011016808; Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:43:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([66.11.161.139]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id v3sm96574igk.1.2015.04.02.14.43.35 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:43:35 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: BlackBerry Email (10.3.1.2576) Message-ID: <20150402214335.33980491.27539.9766@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 17:43:35 -0400 Subject: Re: Why does FreeBSD insist on https? From: Manas In-Reply-To: References: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 21:43:37 -0000 =E2=80=8EI think you should reconsider the tools you are using. There are p= lenty of good reasons for using HTTPS whenever possible. Manas On=C2=A0BlackBerry =C2=A0 Original Message =C2=A0 From: Dieter BSD Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2015 4:26 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why does FreeBSD insist on https? 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? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"