Re: [ANN] https at www.lua.org

[Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3@...>]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Paul Merrell <marbux@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Awesome! Everything is working on my end, with no need to manually
>> accept a certificate. I've changed all of my bookmarks over to use
>> HTTPS.
>
> Kudos on the change. But you don't need to change bookmarks if you use
> the HTTPS Everywhere browser extension by the Electronic Frontier
> Foundation and the TOR Foundation.
> <https://www.eff.org/Https-everywhere>. Available for Chrome, Opera,
> Firefox, and Firefox for Android.
>
> Given an HTTP URL, the extension queries each site to see if an HTTPS
> connection is available instead, and if available cancels the HTTP
> request and issues an HTTPS request instead. In my experience, the
> extra delay is negligible.
>
> HTTPS Everywhere is a companion project to Let's Encrypt, a free
> certificate authority that aims to make conversion to SSL a one click
> experience for web masters. <https://letsencrypt.org/about/>.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Paul

Yeah, I'm aware of that. But I'm old-fashioned and prefer doing things
manually [1] rather than relying on browser extensions. :-P

More specifically, I prefer to have as few extensions as possible
installed in my browser; if I can do it without installing a new
extension, then I prefer to not install it.

[1] Even as a so-called millennial [2], I love this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ksWKOy665o

[2] I hate that term.