{"id":3734,"date":"2016-05-08T11:09:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T11:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/spark\/?p=118"},"modified":"2016-05-08T11:09:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T11:09:52","slug":"https-https-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2016\/05\/08\/https-https-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"HTTPS, HTTPS Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During this past week (IIRC, could have also been last week) I installed the first two add-ons to my disposable Firefox profile: the first was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/https-everywhere\">HTTPS Everywhere<\/a> (from the EFF), the second was <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Rob--W\/https-by-default\">HTTPS By Default<\/a>. Both installations started out as experiments, but there have been no issues and so I&#8217;m going to continue with them for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>HTTPS Everywhere goes slightly against my starting premise of &#8220;take sites in as they come, or stop using them if they&#8217;re unbearable as such&#8221;. But in theory, it shouldn&#8217;t influence the end-user experience very much, so I should still feel equally at home in other casual setups I might be using the web on. The add-on should just help to give me slightly better privacy when at home without me having to think about it.<\/p>\n<p>HTTPS By Default, by contrast, does not go against the premise. Although I will be using HTTPS on some sites I&#8217;d be using over plain HTTP outside home (due to failing to remember to explicitly request for https:\/\/), the purpose here for me is just the opposite: to become aware of sites that fail to present themselves over https, by forcing me to explicitly request them over http:\/\/. (The add-on causes such sites to fail hard when requested without a protocol.)<\/p>\n<p>Installing these two add-ons was prompted by my successful deployment of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Let's_Encrypt\">Let&#8217;s Encrypt<\/a> on my own sites, which means I no longer have to make exceptions for them. Those exceptions would have been pretty big as my sites make up a big portion of my web use.<\/p>\n<p>(Sidebar: I didn&#8217;t realize it had been such a long while since the last post, but the fact that I had trouble remembering the blog&#8217;s name should have been a hint. But for this blog, &#8220;no news is good news&#8221; basically holds true; it means my setup continues to Just Work.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I installed the first two add-ons to my disposable Firefox profile: HTTPS Everywhere and HTTPS By Default.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[546],"class_list":["post-3734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-firefox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}