Towards HTTPS by default
blog.chromium.org
For the past several years, more than 90% of Chrome users' navigations have been to HTTPS sites, across all major platforms. Thankfully, th...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3301227

Chrome will be experimenting with defaulting to https:// if the site supports it, even when an http:// link is used and will warn about downloads from insecure sources for “high-risk files” (example given is an exe). They’re also planning on enabling it by default for Incognito Mode and “sites that Chrome knows you typically access over HTTPS”.

  • LordXenu
    19•9 months ago

    Pushing traffic to https isn’t the worst thing. My ask would be to have a toggle to disable due to local development or server deployments where http/port 80 is the only choice.

    • LittleLilyEnglish
      10•9 months ago

      It does specifically say “defaulting to https:// if the site supports it”, so I think specifying http will still work if the site doesn’t actually support https.

      • @dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2•9 months ago

        No testing a server side http-to-https upgrade/redirect without reconfiguring your browser. This seems like an unnecessary and bad idea.

        This could be easily done better by promoting such server-side configurations as a default.

        I mean, why should the browser attempt to correct inappropriately configured servers? Shouldn’t they rather be making PRs to NGINX/Apache/CAs or whatever?

        Also: can’t this be exploited to spoof an unavailable HTTPS and coerce an unencrypted connection?