Why does FreeBSD insist on https?

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Thu, April 2, 2015 5:38 pm, jd1008 wrote:
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> On 04/02/2015 03:25 PM, RW wrote:
>> On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:36:29 -0600
>> jd1008 wrote:
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>>> 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.
>

but they know the host you are connecting to, so they still can learn
something.

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
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