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Topic: HTTPS or HTTP

Pro:
- If you are in an untrusted environment (for example, work, dorm, country which controls your data) nobody could sniff your data.

Contra:
- Since i cannot buy an official certificate for the forum, i have to use a self-signed certificate. Modern browsers throw a very intimidating security warning, which could scare away potential users. (This is pretty silly, since unencrypted pages have no warnings, but most of our users aren't computer experts)

There are probably more reasons for HTTP/HTTPS. Please comment

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Re: HTTPS or HTTP

It's been a month since this was posted.

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Re: HTTPS or HTTP

i know, i set the poll-timeout to 60 days.

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Re: HTTPS or HTTP

Okay, i will add SSL-encryption in a couple of days... Probably we should make an announcement that an certificate warning will be in place.