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		maple3142 on Dec 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Still Why No HTTPS? Maybe not everyone host website on a platform where you can easily install these things. For example, I have a simple web app hosted on Heroku free plan, and I have to use CloudFlare SSL to get it served over https on my custom domain. But it actually is half encrypted as the connection between CloudFlare and Heroku is plain http.

ridiculous_fish on Dec 17, 2019 [–]

Right. Another example is that you cannot use https with subdomains on GitHub Pages.

https://github.community/t5/GitHub-Pages/Does-GitHub-Pages-S...

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