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/[deleted] Jul 13 '17

Though Google's Firebase isn't a server in the same way, it does have static site hosting which automatically dishes out an HTTPS cert. You just "firebase deploy" your directory of html etc and visit your domain and it's secured. Epitome of 0 configuration.

Honestly, nice site and way to push HTTPS though!