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Please add https to lxer.com

Forum: LXer Meta ForumTotal Replies: 6
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https_please

Dec 27, 2022
10:05 AM EST 		lxer.com is the best Linux news site, but our company has made a restriction that only https sites can be seen. I can't check for Linux news in company anymore.

Also if using Tor browser it requires by default to use https and takes like a minute to redirect from https to http - probably it tries to establish https connection multiple times.

Now I am force to use other Linux news sites and so use lxer.com less and less.

It is now the norm to use https site in all web sites. Can you please add https to your site? It shouldn't be so hard. You can get free SSL certificate on Let's Encrypt web site https://letsencrypt.org/ and you can automate SSL certificate renewal.

Also HTML/2 is way faster using https then http, because many optimizations in HTML/2 were only implemented by browsers for https and were not implemented for http. See for example: https://www.httpvshttps.com/

I hope now that almost every site on the web has https (I actually use lxer.com as the only site with http only) it is the time to move to https. Regards
bob

Sep 03, 2024
1:55 PM EDT 		Effective today LXer.com is supporting https (SSL) access.
dba477

Sep 03, 2024
2:58 PM EDT 		Is it possible to leave only https-connections to Lxer.com acceptable ?
bob

Sep 03, 2024
3:29 PM EDT 		http connections are now being redirected to https connections.
Scott_Ruecker

Sep 03, 2024
3:56 PM EDT 		I am happy as well to announce that everyone can change their bookmarks to https://lxer.com.

Please let everyone you know about the change. ;-)
schestowitz

Sep 04, 2024
2:25 AM EDT 		shutting out http connection (at "dba") would leave out many users of older devices, such as "smart" TVs. https is overrated, it has many of its own perils. Supporting both is advisable.
thenixedreport

Oct 21, 2024
3:29 AM EDT 		Thank you for enabling SSL on your site. I now feel comfortable enough logging in again.

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