(RESOLVED) Will it ever be implemented? HTTPS

[V8Taxi]

I don't understand anything you nerds are waffling on about in here, but

eldar said:

well it be on to this, even.

[loose cannon]

You have to laugh at the spending only to skimp on the forum you no the thing that started the whole
Ph thing, is it the owner getting his own back for all the brexit threads on here ?

[Jonesy23]

It would have been quicker and cheaper to start again and export everything across to a new platform that actually worked out of the box.

Might have allowed for skins that weren't hard coded too.

All this hacking about is a false economy as you're just pouring investment into something that's unsupportable.

But this is a pointless discussion as everyone already knows this and things plough on regardless...

[stuart-b]

Jonesy23 said:

It would have been quicker and cheaper to start again and export everything across to a new platform that actually worked out of the box.

Might have allowed for skins that weren't hard coded too.

All this hacking about is a false economy as you're just pouring investment into something that's unsupportable.

But this is a pointless discussion as everyone already knows this and things plough on regardless...

This. 100%

[768]

I might agree with that, if I thought they were pouring investment into the existing software.

[ClockworkCupcake]

768 said:

I might agree with that, if I thought they were pouring investment into the existing software.

Indeed. You get the impression of an old building with a caretaker / handyman doing their best to keep things running, rather than a team of craftsman continually renovating and improving the building.

New regulations say that we need Wheelchair Access? Handyman spends the next few months building one in and around the day-to-day tasks of fixing burst pipes, repairing sticking doors, and making sure the boiler doesn't go on the fritz again. It's one of those wood & scaffolding affairs that takes up half the stairs up the building as the funds aren't there for actual building work, but it does the job.

[Funk]

ClockworkCupcake said:

768 said:

I might agree with that, if I thought they were pouring investment into the existing software.

Indeed. You get the impression of an old building with a caretaker / handyman doing their best to keep things running, rather than a team of craftsman continually renovating and improving the building.

New regulations say that we need Wheelchair Access? Handyman spends the next few months building one in and around the day-to-day tasks of fixing burst pipes, repairing sticking doors, and making sure the boiler doesn't go on the fritz again. It's one of those wood & scaffolding affairs that takes up half the stairs up the building as the funds aren't there for actual building work, but it does the job.

This never seemed more apt:

Edited by Funk on Sunday 2nd April 16:22

[PistonTechs]

We can now announce a further update on the work to implement HTTPS on PistonHeads.

As mentioned previously, there were three parts to this work...

1/ Implementing HTTPS on all pages that have personal data (i.e. login, registration, change password, email confirmation and account details)
2/ Implementing HTTPS across the rest of the site
3/ Ensuring all ads across the site are served via HTTPS

Part 1/ As you’re no doubt aware, was released on 21st March 2017

Parts 2/ and 3/ Have been released today, 5th April 2017

We do appreciate your patience surrounding this and continue to welcome your feedback.

Thanks,

Laura – for and on behalf of the tech team

[xjay1337]

PistonTechs said:

We can now announce a further update on the work to implement HTTPS on PistonHeads.

As mentioned previously, there were three parts to this work...

1/ Implementing HTTPS on all pages that have personal data (i.e. login, registration, change password, email confirmation and account details)
2/ Implementing HTTPS across the rest of the site
3/ Ensuring all ads across the site are served via HTTPS

Part 1/ As you’re no doubt aware, was released on 21st March 2017

Parts 2/ and 3/ Have been released today, 5th April 2017

We do appreciate your patience surrounding this and continue to welcome your feedback.

Thanks,

Laura – for and on behalf of the tech team

So HTTPS has been resolved at the expense of making the forum ugly AF?

Talk about 1 step forward 2 steps back.

[thebraketester]

Forum looks the same to me.... :/

[lewisco]

Excellent news

[LeighW]

Is this why my browser (Firefox) is now blocking the site, saying it is insecure?

This GTI skin sucks btw, it looks like Scoobynet in 1999...

[768]

Great. Just needs HTTP2 and a reasonable look and feel now and it'll be half way to 2017.

[Durzel]

[768]

Not anymore.

[ClockworkCupcake]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Always has been. And other domain names too. Very useful for corporate firewalls that block on domain name rather than content.

[bitchstewie]

Good move, thank you

[Durzel]

768 said:

Not anymore.

Tell that to Google and the crawled links

PH/Haymarket ought to be permanently redirecting .co.uk to .com if it's the same content lest they get into a bit of grief for duplicate content, etc, or buy another SSL certificate I guess?

[768]

You can put multiple domains on one certificate. Redirecting could screw things up, e.g. for people skirting inadequate domain blocks.

[CraigyMc]

ClockworkCupcake said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Always has been. And other domain names too. Very useful for corporate firewalls that block on domain name rather than content.

pistonheads.co.uk was the original site.

pistonheads.com was added many, many years later

The content is identical. The cert should have the .co.uk domain added to it.