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Sunday 1 December 2019

A Public Service Announcement

I've noticed that most of the blogs I visit don't have HTTPS redirect switched on. Without the redirect, your visitors are accessing an unsecured site HTTP, without the security benefits of HTTPS. When people aren't sending payment or anything it perhaps doesn't matter too much, but I've had my blog secured for a long time now, so you should see a padlock in the browser bar next to the site address.

It's very easy to set up HTTPS redirect: in Blogger, look under Settings, Basic, HTTPS and simply click the box to turn on HTPPS redirect. It didn't appear to cause any issues when I did it, no slowdown or anything.

See HERE for more info.

If HTTPS Redirect is turned on:
Visitors to your blog will always go to https://saltairedailyphoto.blogspot.com.
If HTTPS Redirect is turned off:
Visitors to http://saltairedailyphoto.blogspot.com will be served over HTTP, an unencrypted connection.
Visitors to https://saltairedailyphoto.blogspot.com will be served over HTTPS, an encrypted connection. 

3 comments:

  1. Thank you, good information
    My blog has https on.

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  2. Hi Jenny - thanks ... I need to do mine - it's been waiting for about 2 months ... but I'll get there over the Christmas session ... I wonder what changes it will make to the way I operate the blog at present. I'll be looking into it ... cheers Hilary

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