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A comment on EFF's HTTPS Everywhere Firefox plugin.

Re:EFF's HTTPS Everywhere Firefox plugin by MC27 on Friday June 18, 2010 @07:43AM (#1441895)
Isn't there a technical reason for not offering HTTPS to everyone and everything? Like server load? Or is that no longer a problem due to the power of modern servers? Just thinking, won't this annoy website owners if adopted en masse...
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Re:EFF's HTTPS Everywhere Firefox plugin by abayley on Friday June 18, 2010 @08:02AM (#1441923)
HTTPS is HTTP over TLS (formerly SSL). TLS is stateful, so it probably won't scale as well as regular HTTP. Also, I think it will render HTTP caches useless.
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