h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

As of a couple of weeks ago, the entire site has switched to secure http (https) for everything.

This means that the connection between you, and us, is completely secure, and no one is able to snoop at what articles you read.

(Not that we believe this was a major problem before, but it's nice to know that it cannot be a problem in the future.)

You may, from time to time, find pages that contain "insecure" elements, this is usually due to articles containing images and we are working on a method where those requests are also forced to be via the secure connections.

You will also find that more and more of your favourite sites are switching to secure http (https) and in time, most of the internet will probably end up being secure.

You will not have to do anything, the switch is entirely automatic from your point of view, as there are plenty of people working behind the scenes to add this layer of privacy to your browsing.

well that's nice to know......

Thanks to all involved. Cass

I second Cass's post

Thank you, Brian.

I appreciate your efforts on our behalf.

I'll drink to that ~ . . . .. ...

Great

Let's test whether https links now resolve in Ripley skins:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJQp-q1Y1s

Clearly not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJQp-q1Y1s

This is a known issue with the rendering engine and is not really related to switching transmitting all pages via https.

As the source code for the old Ripley engine is, shall we say "interesting", this issue is one that may, or may not be fixed in the near future, as it largely depends on stumbling across the snippet where Ripley determines of something is a link.

Hope that makes sense.

Yes it does - thanks Brian

Is that the reason I'm now getting an error pop-up message every time I try and load up a page (even if I click 'back' to look at a page I looked at a second ago)?

'Only secure content is displayed. What's the risk? Show all content'

<BB<

If your browser is exceptionally strict when it comes to showing mixed content, then that could very well be the case.

As mentioned, there are elements (images) which are currently referenced by the insecure link in certain posts, and until we either get the system to rewrite stuff on the fly or get the magic hampsters to edit those posts manually, this will be a problem for the "lucky" 1%.

Sorry.

{until we get the system to rewrite stuff on the fly...}

Did you have one in mind?

{Did you have one in mind?}

Actually having real trouble locating any flies at the moment.

Has this change anything to do with the 'header' being a bit messed up in Brunel skin? Mine now shows:

. Rev Nick
. |
. Settings
. |
. Sign Out


Rather than the single line of a name and 2 clickable items

Mine looks like that.....

Mine too. in Alabastard. Not that I care

header hiccup!

it's being worked on

if i understood right, these bits are hard coded to http, and the switch to https might have messed a bit with them... So, perhaps can't be fixed.