[ALUG] Mozilla will obsolete HTTP

[Alan Orth]

Great summary. We're currently having a heated debate about HTTPS and Opera
Mini over on the Nairobi GNU/Linux Users Mailing list (which you should all
join)!

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nairobi-gnu

Regards from Nairobi!

Alan

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Andreas Tauscher via Linux <
linux at lists.habari.co.tz> wrote:

> Now it is official:
> https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/04/30/deprecating-non-secure-http/
>
> Mozilla want's to get rid of http.
> In the first step new features will only work if the connection is httpS.
> In the next step even elder features will be step by step disabled on
> not encrypted connnections.
>
> But until this: Will take some time.
> Google announced a while ago similar things for Chrome.
> Since April https websites are higher ranked in the Google index.
> And HTTP2 will also imply https.
>
> The pressure on webmasters is getting higher to switch to https.
>
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