Re: Upgrade mixed content URLs through HTTP header

> And it's why people pay tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to
> CDNs to support clients who don't send SNI? Clearly not. =)  I think
> maintaining compatibility with existing clients is very important for
> businesses, and a feature that breaks the experience for some
> percentage of them is a feature they won't use.

A business whose HTTPS implementation is partial-- that is, their site works only if the 'upgrade-unsafe' directive is present-- can use UA detection to redirect only those clients known to support 'upgrade-unsafe' to their HTTPS site. Older clients can remain on the HTTP site until the business either rewrites all links internally or decides to deprecate support for those clients.

Received on Wednesday, 4 February 2015 02:21:04 UTC