Tell HN: 6.3% of HN top submissions in plain HTTP, more than half upgradable

Re:Tell HN: 6.3% of HN top submissions in plain HTTP, more t... by aboringusername on Saturday July 11, 2020 @11:40AM (#23802972)

They're lost anyway. The web is on a path to deprecate and remove HTTP and as the usage of plain HTTP dwindles even further to a level Google is comfortable with they'll announce the end of plain HTTP on Chrome (likely in a tiered approach). We'll likely see warnings of insecure HTTP, followed by a red page at some point (similar to a mis-configued TLS cert), followed by refusing to connect to HTTP altogether.

This will absolutely happen by the end of this decade, and HTTP will be a distant memory.

If you care for HTTP, you need to ensure the contents of any HTTP sites are preserved in some capacity because one day, they will remain inaccessible, even using old software will likely not work at some point.

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Re:Tell HN: 6.3% of HN top submissions in plain HTTP, more t... by tjoff on Saturday July 11, 2020 @11:56AM (#23803105)

Doesn't make banning http submission reasonable by any stretch of imagination.

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Re:Tell HN: 6.3% of HN top submissions in plain HTTP, more t... by samaxe on Saturday July 11, 2020 @12:43PM (#23803451)

You assume that all web content is designed for a browser, and uses html. This is simply not true. There are very cool tools and tricks like getting the weather in a terminal just ‘curl wttr.in’ and bam weather report right in your terminal. There are other tools like ‘curl ifconfig.co’. It would make the tools bit more cumbersome if you had to ‘curl https:// wttr.in’. Unless the maintainers of curl had it default to https.

Edit: how to add an erroneous space because HN was doing something weird with the https link

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Re:Tell HN: 6.3% of HN top submissions in plain HTTP, more t... by aloknnikhil on Saturday July 11, 2020 @08:51PM (#23807639)

Or the owner can set up an http redirect to https. It's a win-win. curl happily works with that when you ask it to follow redirects. 'curl -L ...'

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Re:Tell HN: 6.3% of HN top submissions in plain HTTP, more t... by drewbug on Saturday July 11, 2020 @11:54AM (#23803083)

why would old software not work?

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Re:Tell HN: 6.3% of HN top submissions in plain HTTP, more t... by aboringusername on Saturday July 11, 2020 @12:18PM (#23803253)

Try connecting to the internet using Windows XP, lots of bits and pieces are broken. Especially the default browser ;)

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Re:Tell HN: 6.3% of HN top submissions in plain HTTP, more t... by dane-pgp on Saturday July 11, 2020 @12:45PM (#23803470)

To be fair, though, the default browser in Windows XP was pretty broken even when it was new.

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