insecure connection??

[chipp]

i've been inactive on this web for soooooooo long and when i wanna check in to this web before, there's a warning that says this web has insecure connection

can the web admin fix this so it'd be more secure in the future?

[salem c]

If your browser isn't forcing https, you can do it manually yourself.

https://cplusplus.com/forum/lounge/285963/

[kigar64551]

Actually, the non-encrypted (HTTP) version of this site seems to redirect to the encrypted (HTTPS) version:

curl -v -o NUL http://cplusplus.com/forum/

Host cplusplus.com:80 was resolved.
* IPv4: 54.39.7.252
*   Trying 54.39.7.252:80...
* Connected to cplusplus.com (54.39.7.252) port 80
* using HTTP/1.x
> GET /forum/ HTTP/1.1
> Host: cplusplus.com
> User-Agent: curl/8.11.1
> Accept: */*
>
* Request completely sent off
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Server: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
< Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 18:05:22 GMT
< Content-Type: text/html
< Content-Length: 178
< Connection: keep-alive
< Location: https://cplusplus.com/forum/

[chipp]

@salem: what do you mean with that link which is this thread's exact link..?

@kigar: i don't know about the curl's tracing logs, but from my browser, it was stopped and displayed the warning before, and then i clicked "continue to site" or somethin to continue to this site

[kigar64551]

It means that if you try to access the "http://" version of this site, the server will just redirect you to the "https://" version.

Of course, if your browser shows a warning when you try to access an unencrypted "http://" site, then this will pop up before the redirect has a chance to happen. So either you can open the "https://" site directly, or you allow the access to the "http://" site once, which will then redirect you to the "https://" site anyway. And, since your browser will remember the "301 Moved Permanently" redirect that it received from the server, the next time that you try to open the "http://" site, your browser will open the "https://" site right away... 😏

[salem c]

@salem: what do you mean with that link which is this thread's exact link..?
Just showing you that https works.

[chipp]

@salem: ic... actually, the warning my browser displaying before is when i wanna open cplusplus.com/forum only

@kigar: oic.. that's why there's no more warning after that...