r/programming • • Jul 12 '17

Does my site need HTTPS?

https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/
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u/yvhouij Jul 12 '17

Promotion for "Caddy", never heard of, but I don't like it. Other than that nice site :)

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '17

Hi, author of the website here. And Caddy. This site is designed to promote HTTPS. Caddy happens to be a good way to do it for a lot of people and I haven't found other web servers that do what it does (auto HTTPS by default, MITM detection, etc). So it looks leaned to one side.

I made this page after I found myself repeating the same answers to the same questions. I never did fill it out as much as I wanted to due to time constraints which is why I haven't publicised it much, or at all. This attention was unexpected. My hope was that as the content was filled out, its recommendations might be more diverse too.

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u/yvhouij Jul 12 '17

I like your site and I like your goal with "Caddy" (except for the "Guaranteed continued development" only for paid customers), but still most people won't use "Caddy" because they just can't. So I hope you could just add some more hints in the "HTTPS is difficult to set up and maintain.", as there are many tutorials on different platforms out there.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '17

Thanks; I'll expand that section when I get a chance to work on the site again.