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Why in 2021 are websites not available over https?
by mmsc 5y ago
Why in 2021 are websites not available over https?
- relyks 5y agoLooking at the source, it appears the website hasn't been updated since 2014... for a possible reason, that could be one
- g105b 5y agoIt doesn't look like this site was made anywhere near 2021.
- thomasedwards 5y agoI love that you looked at this website, saw its <table> layout, saw the copyright was the year 2000, saw the images with terrible drop shadows, the freeservers icon in the top, and thought “uh, weird this isn’t https”.
- defaultname 5y agoMore likely they have HTTPS-only on so it turns into a error condition. Thankfully such sites are rare now. Aside: Paul Graham's blog that is frequently front-paged on here doesn't support HTTPS. That has always seemed odd.
- tialaramex 5y agoI too have HTTPS-only set, it's interesting what isn't HTTPS in 2021. http://www.open-std.org/ http://www.open-std.org/ is the site that maintains lots of documents for the Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1. Historically both ISO and the IEC worked on IT standards. But obviously it's no good if there's an ISO international standard for how to encode the letter 'A' as binary data and a separate IEC standard for how to do it. In the best case this is pointless duplication of effort (these are international standards groups, every country is ultimately involved) and in the worst case they diverge and there's actual conflict, defying the purpose of standardization. So, the Joint Technical Committee does work on this intersection on behalf of both IEC and ISO. Now, the importance of these standards to everybody means it certainly can be argued that the site must remain forever accessible to those without HTTPS but it's hard to think of any reason to just not implement HTTPS at all...
- Ashanmaril 5y agoIt's not even written in React!