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I don't know much about GitHub Pages, but if it's only for static pages, then why do you need SSL? I mean if you're not going to be sending sensitive dynamic d
by tunesmith 11y ago
I don't know much about GitHub Pages, but if it's only for static pages, then why do you need SSL? I mean if you're not going to be sending sensitive dynamic data. Is it so people can't snoop the contents of your pages over request/response on a network?
- tomjakubowski 11y agoYou might be serving something like a PGP public key, which you'd like viewers to be assured hasn't been tampered with in transit.
- bdcravens 11y agoGoogle uses https as a signal of quality, and Chrome will start shaming sites that aren't: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/google-will-soon-shame-all-websites-that-are-unencrypted-chrome-https http://motherboard.vice.com/read/google-will-soon-shame-all-...
- x0 11y agoI only have static, unimportant data on my site, but I use HTTPS in case someone's ISP is injecting ads or scripts into their pages. I don't want people to think that's part of my website.
- buzzdenver 11y agohttps is also for authentication, not just encryption.