The State of HTTP Security
What is the state of HTTP security today for the web? Are most people enabling HTTPS? Luckily, there's an open project that tracks this and more, which we will examine here.
The web primarily runs on HTTP, but to ensure the security, integrity, and privacy of end-to-end connections, clients communicate over a secure HTTP known as HTTPS.
The importance of a secure communications channel shouldn’t be underestimated. They should be a standard for any size of web applications, whether static or dynamic, and indeed HTTPS is more prevalent than ever.
An important push for HTTPS has been made by browsers themselves, such as Chrome’s continuous attempts to discourage the use of HTTP by portraying any such websites as potentially dangerous.
A prime example of this push is Chrome’s recent hardened policy about mixed content which actively blocks HTTP requests. This follows prior actions taken to ...