- From: Jacob Hoffman-Andrews <jsha@eff.org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:04:21 -0800
- To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>, Mike West <mkwst@google.com>, "public-webappsec@w3.org" <public-webappsec@w3.org>
- CC: Peter Eckersley <pde@eff.org>, Eric Mill <eric@konklone.com>
On 02/11/2015 11:52 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > If it's only sent during navigational requests, then the simplest > server-side logic will fail to redirect requests for things like > images or scripts that could have been redirected safely in the first > place. On upgrade-capable browsers, subresources with hardcoded HTTP URLs would be upgraded to HTTPS by the upgrade mechanism, without ever making a plaintext request. On non-upgrade-capable browsers, subresources with hardcoded HTTP URLs would first make a plaintext request. Some servers may desire to redirect these, but I don't think it adds any security or privacy benefit. The plaintext request has already hit the network and potentially been observed and/or hijacked.
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