The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) plans to begin redirecting insecure HTTP connections to the more protected HTTPS specification, says Thomas Clayburn; however, the actual date for transition has yet to be determined.
The move has been delayed, Clayburn writes, “for fear of breaking legacy web applications, many of which rely on resources reached via HTTP. But it now says it's nearly good to go, at some point.”
According to W3C sysadmin Gerald Oskoboiny, “enough time has passed for most such software to have been updated to handle redirects and https, so we are planning to start redirecting all requests received over http to https within a month or two."
Read more at The Register.
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