[106189] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: https
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken A)
Thu Jul 24 10:12:11 2008
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:06:17 -0500
From: Ken A <ka@pacific.net>
To: Robert Kisteleki <robert@ripe.net>
In-Reply-To: <4888348C.3010806@ripe.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Robert Kisteleki wrote:
> Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>> Anyone have a foolproof way to get grandma to always put "https://" in
>> front of "www"?
>
> I understand this is a huge can of worms, but maybe it's time to change
> the default behavior of browsers from http to https...?
>
> I'm sure it's doable in FF with a simple plugin, one doesn't have to
> wait for FF4. (That would work for bookmarks too.)
>
> Robert
>
80 != 443
There's nobody listening on 443 for most of the Internet.
Ken
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Ken Anderson
Pacific.Net
