orbitalflower

Don't redirect HTTPS to HTTP

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Some websites support HTTPS URLs, but then redirect to HTTP.

Don’t do this. If you have HTTPS capability, just serve the page over HTTPS.

It’s even worse than not supporting HTTPS at all, because you give a false sense of security before dropping the user to HTTP.

Update (August 2025): I haven’t seen any site do this in a long while. Good job.