Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 14:06:58 -0700 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD - <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why does FreeBSD insist on https? Message-ID: <EC6B6576-EB88-4C03-B525-C414F2C63A22@mac.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 Apr 2, 2015, at 1:26 PM, Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@gmail.com> wrote: > Why do so many FreeBSD URLs redirect from http to https? > What is this intended to accomplish? Security? Confidentiality? Strong(er) assurance of content integrity? There are an increasing # of transparent proxies which rewrite content, inject ads, even inject malware for HTTP which are foiled by switching to HTTPS + HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security). > This is user-hostile. Some browsers cannot do https, and there are > good reasons (unrelated to http vs https) to use these browsers. Any browser which does not support HTTPS is either obsolete or simply missing critical functionality. Your bank, online stores, utilities, almost any site with a login are all going to require HTTPS. However, if you prefer to interact with the web by having a script which performs wget and emails you back the results, go right ahead. :-) > 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. >=20 > Can someone *please* fix this? You should expect that as time passes, more and more sites will either = switch to HTTPS only and/or will switch to HTTP/2 which encourages browsers to = try and connect via HTTPS even for http URLs. Regards, --=20 -Chuck
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