“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Chrome omnibox in M76”

Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by jonnybarnes on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @05:52AM (#20572917)

Not for me, http://www.manchester.gov.uk -> https://www.manchester.gov.uk, all good

http://manchester.gov.uk -> https://manchester.gov.uk which gives me a bad tls cert error

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Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by Avamander on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @07:19AM (#20573369)

So the problem is theirs.

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Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by idbehold on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @08:36AM (#20573891)

Yes, as in Google's.

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Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by Avamander on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @08:54AM (#20574004)

Webserver misconfigurations are hosts' problems.

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Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by darkarmani on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @10:17AM (#20574597)

But now you cannot distinguish between the 2 URLs. They look the same in the URL field but one is broken.

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Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by Avamander on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @11:38AM (#20575280)

The website host can absolutely distinguish between the two (two clicks on title bar). I guess this change has another upside of forcing website hosts to have working web server configurations

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Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by johnday on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @10:11AM (#20574544)

Oh - it gives me the error but then does redirect to the correct location (with https security).

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Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by ggggtez on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @10:55AM (#20574863)

No error for me, what exactly is the complaint here?

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