Re: https-only mode is broken

Onno Ekker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Op 16-1-2021 om 01:00 schreef Michael Kaylor:
> Even on sites that only use https, I often get an error saying that a secure connection is not available. After saying to let me through, the site is in https anyways. That doesn't make any sense. I didn't know where else to put this.
> 

https is meant to ensure that you are really on the site you wanted to 
visit. If the certificate is self-signed or uses a weak mechanism, it 
doesn't guarantee anything, so your connection is not secure and Firefox 
warns you for that.

Onno
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