Closed Bug 1684735 Opened 3 years ago Closed 3 years ago

HTTPS-Only Mode should check availability with www prefix

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Security, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Security
Platform:
Desktop
All
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1653898

People

(Reporter: freaktechnik, Unassigned)

Details

Currently, if you enter an URL like "example.com" and the server does not listen via HTTPS, but on HTTP has a redirect to "www.example.com", which does listen on HTTPS the caution page is shown.

While it would be nice if even redirects always supported HTTPS, it seems much more user friendly to check if www.* is available before showing the prompt. In my experience with the feature so far this would eliminiate most of the prompts I see in the first place and make it less likely for automation/fatigue to set in for just always allowing an exception.

Component: Untriaged → DOM: Security
Product: Firefox → Core

Martin, thanks for filing, this is quite high up in our priority queue to fix next.

We have Bug 1653898 on file to that. I'll mark this as a duplicate.

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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