Re: Auto-selection of secure protocol
Neil <[email protected]>
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Ralph Fox wrote: >On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:31:26 +0200, in message <[email protected]>, >Guillaume Michaud wrote: > > >>It could be interesting to offer the user a functionnality which, by default, allows the user to use the encrypted version of a web page, that is to say to redirect him to https://myurl instead of http://myurl when he types "myurl" in the adresse bar. >> >> >The impact on Firefox users is that it will often take longer to open websites when the user types "myurl" in the url bar. > > I have the opposite problem - my Internet banking site doesn't have http: at all, so you have to remember the https: yourself. (Their main website uses a different domain.) Usually I remember to select the login page from the autocomplete results, but sometimes I forget. Maybe the redirect should default to https: if you have only been to https: before. -- Warning: May contain traces of nuts.