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Re:Protecting Against HSTS Abuse by olliej on Friday March 16, 2018 @11:28PM (#16605464)
Because even today there are sites that serve different content on https vs. http -- basically they reserve https for payment and the like.

Doing https first would mean those sites were broken.

Re:Protecting Against HSTS Abuse by bscphil on Friday March 16, 2018 @11:31PM (#16605470)
Arguably, they already are broken. Plenty of people type in https out of habit already. If your website doesn't handle that correctly, you're in for trouble.
Re:Protecting Against HSTS Abuse by chipperyman573 on Friday March 16, 2018 @11:43PM (#16605498)
I don't know anybody who types https or http before typing a URL. Some older people I know type www, but even that has decreased in the last 10 or so years.
Re:Protecting Against HSTS Abuse by bcaa7f3a8bbc on Saturday March 17, 2018 @04:54AM (#16606099)
The worst thing is some websites do understand what HTTPS is but still refused to deploy it, and to handle users who consciously type https://, they deployed a valid HTTPS certificate on the webserver and issues 301s to redirect them back to http://. slashdot.org used to do this, bbc.co.uk still does it, what a shame. I know it's often a stop-gap measure to prepare for the upcoming universal deployment, but it seemed most websites that use this hack don't have any plan to secure their sites.