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The Internet Archive Switches To HTTPS Connections By Default

Posted by timothy on from the rewriting-history dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Internet Archive today announced it has enabled HTTPS connections by default on archive.org and openlibrary.org. The organization today also revealed it now sees over 3 million users per day. Both sites are still accessible over HTTP connections. Since the Wayback Machine is hosted on archive.org, it also follows the same rules: the secure version is used by default, but you can use the http version which will help load certain complicated webpages."

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  1. Internet Archive leaves /. behind by tepples · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If Facebook and Twitter and Gmail as well as the not-for-profit Internet Archive and Wikipedia can use HTTPS by default, why doesn't everyone? Why, for instance, does Slashdot require a paid subscription in order not to redirect HTTPS hits to HTTP, revealing the logged-in user's session ID to anyone with a Firesheep-like tool?