HTTPS Deployment Growing by Leaps and Bounds

Re:HTTPS Deployment Growing by Leaps and Bounds by seanwilson on Friday December 23, 2016 @11:59AM (#13245750)

> But for a lot of sites (like phrasegenerator.com, one of mine) I'm not sure it makes sense

An attacker could replace your site with anything: ads, viruses, malware, payment prompt. HTTPS also allows you to add HTTP2 support which can lead to faster page loads.

Given that there's a lot of low effort ways to add HTTPS (e.g. Netlify, Cloudflare, Heroku), the question should really be why go with HTTP 1?

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Re:HTTPS Deployment Growing by Leaps and Bounds by tombrossman on Friday December 23, 2016 @12:46PM (#13246047)

For me, the possibility of faster page loads with HTTP/2 is the main selling point, plus the usual TLS advantages of guaranteeing the integrity of page content, etc.

Plenty of info on speed out there, here's one example: https://blog.httpwatch.com/2015/01/16/a-simple-performance-c...

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