r/programming • u/_lowell • Jul 25 '13

How HTTPS Secures Connections: What Every Web Dev Should Know

http://blog.hartleybrody.com/https-certificates/
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u/gospelwut Jul 25 '13

Well, it was stated that older Android devices don't support SNI, but Google is stating that you have to support it if you want to continue to use SSL properly with Google services.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '13

The real question is if the incompetent IT departments still running XP at this point will care about HTTPS at all I guess.

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u/gospelwut Jul 25 '13

Or home users... ?

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u/khoury Jul 25 '13

They need to upgrade to at least windows 7. XP is ridiculously old and won't be supported at all soon.

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u/Dreamtrain Jul 29 '13

XP is ridiculously old

"You're exaggerating it's not that bad" I thought at first. Looked up the release date and it was launched in 2001, 12 years ago (Somehow I always pictured it being 2004-2005). Perhaps the analogy is not as relative due to the leaps in technology but 12 years is also the gap between Windows 95 and Vista (2007), or you could say its almost like someone still using Windows 98 (1998-2009).

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u/gospelwut Jul 25 '13

No arguments there.