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josteink on Dec 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Marking HTTP as Non-Secure

So why bother with httpq at all when we have plain http?

upofadown on Dec 14, 2014 [–]

You mean do some sort of opportunistic encryption on http:// connections? Wouldn't that just make things ambiguous again?

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