Disable HTTPS upgrade? [LWN.net]

Disable HTTPS upgrade?

Posted Mar 5, 2025 15:21 UTC (Wed) by rschroev (subscriber, #4164)
In reply to: Disable HTTPS upgrade? by PeeWee
Parent article: Firefox 136.0 released

> "At which point are probably better off removing the one port 80."

>> Unless there is a very good reason to provide unencrypted access one might as well not bother with setting up that one to begin with.

On port 80 I always set up a redirect to port 443. Is that not the normal / expected thing to do?

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Disable HTTPS upgrade?

Posted Mar 5, 2025 15:32 UTC (Wed) by PeeWee (subscriber, #175777) [Link] (1 responses)

OK, there's that, I totally forgot about it. But then you don't really have to bother with setting up anything beyond that on port 80. ;)

Disable HTTPS upgrade?

Posted Mar 6, 2025 13:19 UTC (Thu) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link]

And, more importantly, this change in the default to https first will eventually lead to a world where we finally won't need that http Port just to redirect any more.