How to Force a Site to Use Http Connection
Date 21/3/2013
The Firefox add-on Firesheep has demonstrated the vulnerability of insecure connections with a bang. Users who use an unencrypted connection to access sites and services on public networks may have their information recorded by other users who record the network traffic. To put it in layman terms: You may be vulnerable to this kind of data snooping if you see http and not https in your browser's address bar.
Http is bad and https is good for privacy and security reasons. That's all there is to it. Most services allow both http and https connections to their sites, Facebook is an example. There are services, like Gmail, Google's email service, that only allows https connections and will redirect http requests to https for increased security and privacy.
The Firefox add-on Firesheep has demonstrated the vulnerability of insecure connections with a bang. Users who use an unencrypted connection to access sites and services on public networks may have their information recorded by other users who record the network traffic. To put it in layman terms: You may be vulnerable to this kind of data snooping if you see http and not https in your browser's address bar.
Http is bad and https is good for privacy and security reasons. That's all there is to it. Most services allow both http and https connections to their sites, Facebook is an example. There are services, like Gmail, Google's email service, that only allows https connections and will redirect http requests to https for increased security and privacy.
