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Re:What's on HTTP? by forgotmypw17 on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:11AM (#47434853)
Agree 100%. HTTP is much more accessible, and HTTPS has more failure modes. When I want to ensure that someone can read my content, I offer both.
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Re:What's on HTTP? by Suzuran on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:40AM (#47440341)
Using HTTP does not guarantee your content can be read, since it can be modified in transit. Your content could be replaced entirely and you would never know unless someone reported it to you.
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Re:What's on HTTP? by forgotmypw17 on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:19PM (#47441883)
This is true, and is a real failure mode of HTTP.

Where I live, and for people with older devices, this happens much less frequently than the HTTPS failure modes of unsupported browsers.

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