Re: The ability to automatically upgrade a reference to HTTPS from HTTP

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On Aug 23, 2014, at 12:03 AM, Eliot Lear <lear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> On 8/22/14, 11:37 PM, Nico Williams wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:16:22PM -0700, Tim Bray wrote:
>>> 
>>> What this means is that a client given an http:  URL in a reference is
>>> always free to try out the HTTPS, just adding an S, and use result if the
>>> is successful.
>> It too late for that though: all too often the two resources are not the
>> same.
>> 
> 
> Indeed.  Regrettably I suspect the worst offender would be the index
> itself for the site (e.g., http://www.example.com v.
> https://www.example.com).

Um? Those look identical to me.

--Paul Hoffman

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