How the BBC News website has changed over the past 20 years

Re:How the BBC News website has changed over the past 20 years by mtkd on Saturday November 18, 2017 @05:37PM (#15731044)

I keep reading that - but I just don't buy it - you can offload SSL to edge devices - why do the servers even need to care?

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Re:How the BBC News website has changed over the past 20 years by almsgiver on Saturday November 18, 2017 @05:54PM (#15731108)

Good write-up here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/f6f50d1f-a879-49...

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Re:How the BBC News website has changed over the past 20 years by gggvvh on Sunday November 19, 2017 @04:50AM (#15733120)

TL;DR Chrome lit a fire on their collective arses. They’d never have switched otherwise.

> Earlier in 2016, the Chromium development team decided to implement a change to Google Chrome, preventing access to certain in-browser features on ‘insecure’ (non-HTTPS) web pages. In practice, this meant that key features of certain products, such as the location-finding feature within the Homepage, Travel News and Weather sites, would stop working if we didn’t enable HTTPS for those services.

Thanks Obama, I mean Google.

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