Comments on: HTTPS Aloof On Gmail, Facebook And Other Major Websites

By: Kat

Kat — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:28:01 +0000

I have never had a problem with facebook on my laptop before but recently its been playing up and the only way i can access it is by putting the https in the address but it dissapears as soon as i click onto something else and shows a http address along with it saying 'internet cannot display this webpage'. Has anyone any idea how i can fix this?

By: GauVeldt

GauVeldt — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:46:41 +0000

One caveat to amateur websites or small business is the $100 USD per year fee to having a valid certificate. If a way can be found to have this available to the more financially challenged even in these bad economic times more sites would be found with HTTPS security enabled.

By: Mom/LorriM

Mom/LorriM — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:34:43 +0000

As of this morning, it seems to be fine. I wonder what the problem was.

By: Scott Jarkoff

Scott Jarkoff — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:56:36 +0000

That is quite peculiar. The HTTPS option only ensures you always communicate with Gmail via HTTPS rather than HTTP, and should have nothing to do with sending email. May want to log out and log back in after that, just to ensure the session is set properly.

Is this still acting funky for you?

By: Mom/LorriM

Mom/LorriM — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:50:11 +0000

On Google…I found a problem. When you go in to change the option to HTTPS, and then you send an email…it shows up with a “404 error”.

I did this as recently as five minutes ago…sent two test emails.

Good article!

By: YorickPeterse

YorickPeterse — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:34:35 +0000

That would be the ideal situation yes, but too bad Twitter doesn't do that (as far as I can remember).

By: Rich Chuckrey

Rich Chuckrey — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:03:41 +0000

Speed is certainly a drawback in using SSL full-time. Ideally – websites that require username and password would have you land on a secure page or redirect you to one. Then they could make the switch to unsecured HTTP for the rest of your session — unless of course, your session is with a financial institution where you want ALL data encrypted.

By: YorickPeterse

YorickPeterse — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:16:43 +0000

Problem with Twitter is that Firefox reports that the site is using an invalid security certificate, besides that Twitter is extremely slow when using https