Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default

Re:Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default by gtys on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @11:47AM (#26556416)

It's in the article:

"For sites that don’t yet support HTTPS, Chrome will fall back to HTTP when the HTTPS attempt fails."

I hope the slippery slope stops here though and HTTP will not be eradicated in browsers (in which case one would need corporate permission and approval to publish anything).

s_client or curl are not a suitable workarounds for the masses ...

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Re:Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default by iso1631 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @11:57AM (#26556541)

Next steps could be

1) Rather than auto-redirect, ask the user if they want to redirect

2) Force the user to type http://server/ to visit the server on http

Neither of those eradicates http.

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