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  • No testing a server side http-to-https upgrade/redirect without reconfiguring your browser. This seems like an unnecessary and bad idea.

    This could be easily done better by promoting such server-side configurations as a default.

    I mean, why should the browser attempt to correct inappropriately configured servers? Shouldn’t they rather be making PRs to NGINX/Apache/CAs or whatever?

    Also: can’t this be exploited to spoof an unavailable HTTPS and coerce an unencrypted connection?


  • Imagine you want to test your redirect from 80 to 443 when setting up your webserver.

    While I think for the normal user this enhances security by defaulting to HTTPS, however this makes no sense for a browser. This should be enforced server side, the browser is for browsing, i.e. viewing. Not controlling and competing with the server software for competency.

    Chromium is really leaning into bad code practice with the disregard for “separation of concerns”.