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[-] ccdfa@lemm.ee 48 points 1 year ago

One random thing that really annoys me is that the site http://shakespeare.mit.edu does not properly forward http requests to https although they have an https version of the site.

[-] baatliwala@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Funniest thing I've ever seen is the docs for Nginx do the same, no http to https redirection. I mean, you would hope that the maintainers for the biggest web server in the world would be able to manage that but somehow... No they don't.

[-] gatelike@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

server serves a protocol on a port. I would rather it not include logic like that. turn off the http port of you don't want to serve http.

[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

HSTS + HTTPS redirect is the answer. It's industry standard for a reason: it's just as safe as pure HTTPS since you can't get anything other than a redirect over HTTP, and HSTS protects your users from future attempted MITM attacks. The MDN page for HSTS explains it all very clearly.

Any other implementation is an immediate audit fail in my experience.

There's no tangible security benefit to fully disabling port 80, and if anything depending on the service it may just drive users away to shadier alternatives.

[-] baatliwala@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

that would mean anyone going to http:// will perceive as the server being down so what you are saying will not work in practice

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Apache tomcat had a stupid security issue. I recently did a HackTheBox about it. Here's a write-up of the box https://medium.com/ctf-writeups/hack-the-box-jerry-write-up-6f045601315f

[-] Sneptaur@pawb.social 13 points 1 year ago

Why does reading Shakespeare need to be over SSL?

[-] the_third@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago

At least because search engines rank TLS enabled sites higher these days. And also, wrapping everything in TLS creates more noise against surveillance and makes surveillance more expensive.

[-] Sneptaur@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

So if this site has both HTTPS and HTTP versions, and it’s just Shakespeare, does it matter that much? I figure not which is why it’s not auto redirecting

[-] Takios@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago

SSL (or TLS nowadays) not only protects against surveillance but also guarantees the integrity of the data you send and receive. Without it, someone could spoof the response you receive. In practice this means injecting ads or malware or even worse: fake shakespeare!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

According to some, all Shakespeare is fake Shakespeare.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Pay no attention to the man in the middle

[-] Sneptaur@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the explanation!

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It is brutal how few people know how to implement it and how apps all seem to have their own ways of doing it. I have to keep notes for the quirks of every damn app/OS I work with that uses SSL/TLS.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Why man they doth share packets in the clear

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you are using Firefox, enable https everywhere setting and it fixes stuff like that

It will only give an error if there's no https version that exists

[-] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Firefox has a built in setting that does the same. No need for the extension

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They said to use the setting, nothing about extensions though.

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Don't you just need to toss an ".htaccess" file in the root?

[-] timewarp@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

No, an .htaccess file is specific to Apache HTTP Server... although some other web servers have integrated the format. However, most browsers now automatically redirect when an HTTPS version exists.

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