Hey, thanks for the extra insight, I do appreciate. Interesting to know that those sites show these behaviours too. Why could geo-location based redirect be interesting?
Re:Why No HTTPS?
by Scott_Helme_ on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @03:33PM
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My guess would be that maybe sites have different infrastructure in different regions and maybe they aren't completely aligned on their progress. I really don't know why you'd intentionally have it like that.
The biggest thing we've come across so far is geo-sensitive handling of requests. Some sites will redirect you to HTTPS or not based on where you are making the request from! This of course means you might see HTTPS and we see HTTP.
I think it's still fair to include those sites in this case because they aren't serving all traffic securely.