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Old 03-27-2011, 08:12 PM   #1
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Check for HTTPS in firefox


Is there a plugin or some other way to check to see if a website has https available, and use that instead? I know some sites, like Wikipedia have a different hostname for SSL support (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/), while others have the same hostname, just https:// intstead of http://. What I would really like to see is some kind of header in the http reply or the html that says SecureAvailable="https://thesitename.com", is there any system like this in place? There's too many issues with with unencrypted http to continue having that as the default.

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Old 03-27-2011, 08:38 PM   #2
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Maybe something like HTTPS Everywhere?
 
Old 03-29-2011, 08:20 PM   #3
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Concur with win32sux, I use that and it seems to work just fine on FF on Linux & MS
 
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Old 04-09-2011, 12:50 PM   #4
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Ok thanks guys! That's exactly what I was looking for.
 
  


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