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From: | David Woolley |
Subject: | Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx does NOT default to https support |
Date: | Tue, 22 May 2018 09:19:49 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 |
On 22/05/18 05:47, Mouse wrote:
PS. https support is essential now daysPerhaps for what you want to do. I do just fine without it, and, indeed, if lynx defaulted to HTTPS support on, I would disable it before building - I neither have nor want HTTPS support. (On my home machines, that is. At work, on work machines - I use lynx both at home and at work - I build an HTTPS-capable version because that's what work needs.)
The current advice to web site operators is that http sites should always redirect to https ones, and there is meta data on some sites that relates to this, although I forget the details. It appears to be a policy pushed by Google, and it looks as though http sites will lose their position in Google's search results.
If you impose a no https policy on the internet, you will find that you can only access sites that don't know or care about current best practice.
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