in reply to let's encrypt

I completely agree that supporting HTTPS would be a good idea. Not only is there the security issue, but also Google has been using HTTPS as a ranking signal for several years now, and since January 2017, they're further penalizing sites without HTTPS: Moving towards a more secure web.

Note that you should be able to access PerlMonks via HTTPS without the certificate warning at https://perlmonks.pair.com/, although currently I'm having connection problems there.

See also the recent thread https oddity.

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Re^2: let's encrypt
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 23, 2017 at 18:46 UTC
    Ah, so that's why I see so many pointless https implementations out there. Example: at Penny Arcade, every link on the page is an http link, but they've configured their server to redirect http to https. It completely defeats the purpose of encryption, because all the redirects are in the clear, but hey, if it makes Google happy...
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