Alright, this is the case:
I have a website. When not logged in, it is a http connection.
On my homepage I have a link to another site:
www.somesite.com
So far so good, when pressing the link it goes to the site.
But when I log in to my website, I have a secured connection (https).
Now, when I press the same link, it opens https://www.somesite.com although I have the link hardcoded as http in my code. And the somesite.com does not provide a https connection, so the browser is complaining.
How is this possible and how do I get the browser to just follow the hardcoded url?
Many websites support a non-secured (http) connection up to the point of user authentication. At that point, many sites will redirect to a secured (https) authentication mechanism and conduct all subsequent communication with the authenticated user over https.
The site you are accessing is being redirected by the server to the secure connection. That is why when you access the site via your link via http, the server redirects you to the secure site. If you are familiar with the dev tools in your browser, you can probably follow a network trace of the exchange between you and your site and see the redirect at some point in the communication exchange.
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My site has a server-level redirect from HTTP to HTTPS, but Chrome shows "Site is note secure" warning before redirecting even though the user will never see the insecure site. This is a bad UX because the user has access to a secure site and Chrome is the one not checking if secure access / redirect is available. Most sites redirect from http to https but only some of them are blocked on Chrome. What is the reason for this? How can I fix this on my sites?
My site is https://theinfinitezero.com
But if I just put http://theinfinitezero.com
it gets blocked instead of redirecting.
Browser says "Camera Blocked to protect your privacy"
My project include using user camera and when i access application from localhost camera works fine but when accessing through ipaddress, the browser by default blocks the camera and other resource.. how can i allow them for my application.
My application is for an organization who will be accessing the application using ipaddress.
Thank you for reading and your help. :)
type url chrome://flags/#unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure
Enter url in the textarea
Choose Enabled in the select option
Click image link bellow to see detail
example
Chrome blocks vulnerable features—including camera, location, microphone, etc. on non-secure sites. As of July 2018, with the release of Chrome 68, Chrome starts to mark all HTTP sites as "not secure."
You have three options to unblock these features for your site:
Treat 192.168.10.79 as secure origins by setting chrome://flags/#unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure. Origins must have their protocol specified, e.g., http://192.168.10.79.
Port forwarding your site address to localhost. Chrome treats localhost as secure origins.
Set up a self-signed certificate for the server.
The problem is because of http protocol. This is not a secure protocol.
Solution
In my scenario I have used https and have got all permissions.
I started to use Fiddler and I want to be able use it to debug https requests.
I read the part "Configuring for HTTPS Capture" in the
following article: http://www.kleinfelter.com/content/using-fiddler-capture-encrypted-traffic-https
So I decided to change the properties of Fiddler to enable also https requests. I checked both "Capture HTTPS CONNECTs" and "Decrypt HTTPS traffic"
Once I clicked the "OK" button my browser blocked any https requests. Therefore, I couldn't enter any sites with personal information such as Facebook or Gmail. The error message that I got from the browser was:
Your connection is not private
Attackers might be trying to steal your information from
www.facebook.com (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards).
NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID
I probably have to change something in the properties of my browser (Chrome) so I'll be able to submit https requests while fiddler is working. I know it may be unsecure, but once I finish using Fiddler, I'll change it back to its default property.
Do you know what I have to change in my browser?
Fiddler uses its own root CA when acting as a MITM proxy to decrypt HTTPS traffic. This CA is not trusted by Windows (which is good, as Fiddler does not have the authority to issue certificates). Fiddler uses this root CA to create certificates on the fly for HTTPS sites you visit enabling it to decrypt content.
The message you are seeing is Chrome warning you that the issuer of the dynamically Fiddler generated certificate is unknown. On most sites, you can bypass this by accepting the warning but some sites employ additional security practices such as Strict Transport Security (HSTS) and certificate pinning where a browser prohibits you from accepting warnings such as these.
To avoid having browsers show a warning, you should add the Fiddler root certificate to your trusted certificates. IE and Chrome share the same certificate store maintained in Windows, while Firefox maintains its own store internally.
To trust Fiddler's Root certificate,
Click the "Export Root Certificate to Desktop" button in your screen print (in newer versios, this is available behind a button titled "Action" on the same dialog).
This exports the Fiddler root certificate to your desktop.
Open the certificate file and click the "Install Certificate" button.
Proceed with the rest of the prompts to add it to your list of trusted root certificates.
References: https://www.fiddlerbook.com/fiddler/help/httpsdecryption.asp and http://docs.telerik.com/fiddler/Configure-Fiddler/Tasks/TrustFiddlerRootCert
How do you tell if a site is an HTTP:// site or an HTTPS:// site? I am just starting to learn some of the more fundamental things about internet security. When you put up a web site is there a special way that you have to set up the html format in the .html files so that the site is secure or is this something that can be purchased from the site provider were you host the web site.
This seems like and easy thing to do but even on stackoverflow what it type in is
stackoverflow.com/questions/ask
There is no HTTP or HTTPS in front of the internet address. Is this implied or is there a way to toggle this on an off in the tools?
HTML Code:
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Test Title</title>
</head>
<body>
//...code goes here...
</body>
</html>
Is there something that goes in the HTML that determines whether the site is secure or not? Or is this an option on each page when you host the site.
How do you tell if a site is an HTTP:// site or an HTTPS:// site?
By looking at the URL
This seems like and easy thing to do but even on stackoverflow what it type in is
If you type in something that looks like a URL with the scheme missing, then browsers will assume you intended to put http:// in front of it.
Most browsers will hide the http:// part from the address bar for non-SSL sites.
When you put up a web site is there a special way that you have to set up the html format in the .html files so that the site is secure or is this something that can be purchased from the site provider were you host the web site.
To use SSL you need to have an SSL certificate and the web server needs to be configured to use it.
Beyond that, everything comes down to how the server is configured. You could have different sites hosted on http and https, or the same site, or redirect from one to the other, and so on.
Is there something that goes in the HTML that determines whether the site is secure or not?
No. SSL is dealt with at the transport level, not the document level.
Or is this an option on each page when you host the site.
You could configure a server to redirect the URLs for some pages to HTTPS and some to HTTP. This was typically done to save on CPU power for pages where security wasn't needed. Today, CPU power is much cheaper, so it is normally better to use SSL by default.
To make a site secured (an HTTPS) site you need a certificate and add the proper binding that means including a port and protocol by default https uses port 443 and NO, none of those configurations at server level will affect the files serve like your .html files.
HTTP means Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The "S" is Secure.
There is no special definition you can define to ensure a secure HTTP connection.
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remain private and integral.
These certificates can be purchased from companies that provide them. This essentially encrypts any data transferred between the server and person it is responding to.
In short, this is determined by the browser, and different browsers have different strategies.
When you visit a site, such as www.abc.com, different browsers will use different default protocols.
Microsoft Edge will first use http to connect to port 80 of the server. If the server is set to redirect, it will send a 301 move permanently message to allow the client to reconnect to the site using https.
But the new version of chrome will directly use https to connect to the site (port 443), if the connection fails, then connect to http (port 80).
https://blog.chromium.org/2021/03/a-safer-default-for-navigation-https.html
Chrome will now default to HTTPS for most typed navigations that don’t specify a protocol. HTTPS is the more secure and most widely used scheme in Chrome on all major platforms. In addition to being a clear security and privacy improvement, this change improves the initial loading speed of sites that support HTTPS, since Chrome will connect directly to the HTTPS endpoint without needing to be redirected from http:// to https://. For sites that don’t yet support HTTPS, Chrome will fall back to HTTP when the HTTPS attempt fails (including when there are certificate errors, such as name mismatch or untrusted self-signed certificate, or connection errors, such as DNS resolution failure). This change is rolling out initially on Chrome Desktop and Chrome for Android in version 90, with a release for Chrome on iOS following soon after.
I have created an application from Box developer account, but I couldn't able to set the redirect url as http. I have seen that Box API supports only https. As I hosted my web application as a module of another web application, I cannot change it's protocol to https. So is there any way to set the redirect url to http?
Please find me a solution for this.
Thanks in Advance.
Since the redirect URL is used to send you your application OAuth2 tokens, You are essentially asking Box to send you confidential information in the clear. It's just not a good idea, since anyone that installs a network sniffer anywhere between you and Box can just sniff those tokens and start using them.
If you don't have the ability to ask your server hardware or hosting web application for an encrypted connection, it's probably time to upgrade your service provider or web app.