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Hopefully this'll prompt these sites to switch to SSL by default...

by SeoxyS 15y ago

patrickod 15y ago
Funnily enough I had switched my Facebook account to SSL automatically a while and completely forgot about it. I ran the app on my phone and was surprised it worked. It seems that some "application" that I had used on Facebook required SSL to be temporarily disabled. I don't remember an application saying that SSL had to be disabled, and I'd be the sort of person to read these things. I'd worry that this would be a problem for less techy users. SSL should be an opt-out feature for anything that harbors personal information. I can only assume that this isn't the case due to the extra server overhead that FB would have to deal with ?
- CWIZO 15y ago
  Whenever I go to a FB page that displays some content that is not served over https, FB gives me a warning saying that the secure connection will be temporarily disabled, but will be restored when I log back in the next time. And you have to agree to that.
  - StavrosK 15y ago
    Yep, it did that for me just yesterday as well.
  - dspillett 15y ago
    I'm told that there were bugs in that process discovered shortly after its introduction that could mean the switch back to HTTP happened without the user being told so explicitly. These have been fixed, but the poster you replied to may have been unlucky enough to have used such an app during a window when such a problem was still present. Another source of confusion is that nether the iPhone or Android native facebook applications respect the HTTPS setting, so to use HTTPS for facebook access on a phone make sure you use it via the web browser not the native app. IIRC this was one of the bugs: accessing facebook via one of those apps would reset the switch for next time you accessed the site by other means, whereas now it doesn't.
paul9290 15y ago
Just a random somewhat on topic thought ... Facebook is becoming more and more a spammers haven thus degrading user experience. For past six months I havent really clicked on anything my friends shared and or liked on FB unless I am familiar with the domain name. The spammers are taking over and they need to ring it in quickly or another network needs to rise in popularity. Maybe the downfall of Facebook will be the 650 million(out of 700 million) non tech savvy users who keep falling for scam after scam?

Hopefully this'll prompt these sites to switch to SSL by default...

by SeoxyS 15y ago

Hopefully this'll prompt these sites to switch to SSL by default...

Funnily enough I had switched my Facebook account to SSL automatically a while and completely forgot about it. I ran the app on my phone and was surprised it worked. It seems that some "application" that I had used on Facebook required SSL to be temporarily disabled. I don't remember an application saying that SSL had to be disabled, and I'd be the sort of person to read these things. I'd worry that this would be a problem for less techy users. SSL should be an opt-out feature for anything that harbors personal information. I can only assume that this isn't the case due to the extra server overhead that FB would have to deal with ?

CWIZO 15y ago
Whenever I go to a FB page that displays some content that is not served over https, FB gives me a warning saying that the secure connection will be temporarily disabled, but will be restored when I log back in the next time. And you have to agree to that.
- StavrosK 15y ago
  Yep, it did that for me just yesterday as well.
- dspillett 15y ago
  I'm told that there were bugs in that process discovered shortly after its introduction that could mean the switch back to HTTP happened without the user being told so explicitly. These have been fixed, but the poster you replied to may have been unlucky enough to have used such an app during a window when such a problem was still present. Another source of confusion is that nether the iPhone or Android native facebook applications respect the HTTPS setting, so to use HTTPS for facebook access on a phone make sure you use it via the web browser not the native app. IIRC this was one of the bugs: accessing facebook via one of those apps would reset the switch for next time you accessed the site by other means, whereas now it doesn't.

paul9290 15y ago

Just a random somewhat on topic thought ... Facebook is becoming more and more a spammers haven thus degrading user experience. For past six months I havent really clicked on anything my friends shared and or liked on FB unless I am familiar with the domain name. The spammers are taking over and they need to ring it in quickly or another network needs to rise in popularity. Maybe the downfall of Facebook will be the 650 million(out of 700 million) non tech savvy users who keep falling for scam after scam?