The modern HTTPS world has no place for old web servers

Re:The modern HTTPS world has no place for old web servers by yndoendo on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @02:40PM (#23170174)

I can confirm this 100% with Charter / Spectrum. They use MITM to alter HTTP content to display their TOS you have to agree to in order to stop redirecting the content.

The only workaround is to use a VPN since so many servers still have not moved from HTTP to HTTPS.

Tech support states unless I accept the agreement this will not stop and may connection will be disconnected which is complete BS since HTTPS prevents this from working properly!

So yes, even ISPs are bad actors when it comes to HTTP.

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Re:The modern HTTPS world has no place for old web servers by yellowapple on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @04:17PM (#23171322)

I use Spectrum at home, as do my grandparents, and in neither case have I ever seen that happen (and I do access at least a couple non-HTTPS sites every once in awhile). Was that recent?

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