Why does FreeBSD insist on https?

[Nino J]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:38 AM, jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 04/02/2015 03:25 PM, RW wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:36:29 -0600
>> jd1008 wrote:
>>
>>> https prevents intermediate hop points (such as your isp)
>>> from looking at the page content, or at the terms of your
>>> search. But that does not prevent them from seeing the url.
>>>
>> Actually it does. The url is sent inside the encryption.
>>
> That is good to know. I had thought otherwise.


Just bear in mind that the OP mentioned redirect to https. That means that
the initial request to the exact URL (i.e. before being redirected and
switching to https) is visible.

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Nino