HTTPS sign in - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: rhb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2017, 09:21:47 pm
content: When is this forum going to start using HTTPS for login? Firefox is grumbling about it every time I log in.

author: Cliff Matthews
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 17, 2017, 10:23:03 pm
content: I tried it with Chrome just now and it's OK... FWIW, I'm a Firefox user as well but I gave-up on Chrome as my main squeeze to support Firefox (the last private browser made by an NPO).Although this forum area is for posting about blogs (other than EEVblog), and you may find the best browser specific help by posting athttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/get-community-support

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 17, 2017, 11:55:19 pm
content: This forum will work on http or https - your choice.If you want secure log in - then use https.

author: Cliff Matthews
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 18, 2017, 03:40:55 am
content: Quote from: Brumby on November 17, 2017, 11:55:19 pmSorry Brumby, I just tried on Firefox and it works now. I recall posting an issue about it a year ago in the members area, but I didn't see an improvement in the failure rate of https logins, so I gave up, since privacy wasn't an issue. I just put it down to site upgrades, etc..

author: bitseeker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2017, 04:04:36 am
content: rhb,It'll start using the 's' when you add it. It's just not configured to use https by default.

author: Cliff Matthews
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 18, 2017, 04:20:21 am
content: FWIW, I have bookmarks specifically to both (convenience, for those times when https doesn't appear to work..)https://www.eevblog.com/forum/login/I wonder if it stops working if Dave's hosting company judges we are bogging down resources on a shared server.

author: bitseeker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2017, 04:26:38 am
content: The forum has a CDN (CloudFlare). Should be OK on traffic.

author: Cliff Matthews
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 18, 2017, 04:33:36 am
content: Is that like some kind of edge content provider? I haven't followed that stuff since Akamai came out (or whatever..)Back in the day, we had to add special boards into servers, so they didn't bog-down on heavy encryption session count.

author: bitseeker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2017, 05:04:16 am
content: Yes, it's a content delivery network like Akamai. CloudFlare also provides the TLS encryption between their node and the client browser.

author: Cliff Matthews
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 18, 2017, 12:55:48 pm
content: Ha! So if someone really wanted private data that bad, they could just look for it on the superspeed BGP backhaul connection... Likely HLS are the only ones capable of that level of access or decode speed. I'm not much of a conspirasist but I bet some Russian mobster's being watched right now in this brave new worlld.

author: rhb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2017, 03:25:51 pm
content: I tried specifying https again and now it works. When I went to EEVblog.com and selected forum it had pointed me to the http login and I had bookmarked that. The links on the eevblog.com home page appear to be an assortment of http and https.But what the heck. I clicked on an ad and got a DNS lookup failure.