• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

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speedy70

Charter Member
Can one of the moderators tell me why the site has the black padlock sign crossed out in red and the site says connection not secure?

To me this is very concerning.

Cheers Chris
 
It seems to be a case of 'what browser are you using' and nothing sinister AFAIK.
I use Firefox and it certainly tells me when it thinks so, however, it seems to be endemic where sites are using the same software as SOH.
:dizzy:
 
Nono, it's actually very simple: Firefox considers website that use http as not secure. It prefers https, with the s for secure.

Priller
 
HTTPS vs. HTTP

HTTPS stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure.

The problem with the regular HTTP protocol is that the information that flows from server to browser is not encrypted, which means it can be easily stolen.


HTTPS protocols remedy this by using an SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate, which helps create a secure encrypted connection between the server and the browser, thereby protecting potentially sensitive information from being stolen as it is transferred between the server and the browser. For that reason, the vast majority of sites now use HTTPS.
 
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