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HTTPS

The floor. Everything else assumes it.

What it is

A valid certificate and a permanent redirect from http://. Nothing exotic.

Why an agent cares

Many HTTP clients and browsers warn on or refuse insecure origins, and anything that checks transport security marks the page down.

A mixed-content page can also lose exactly the parts you most want read.

How to fix it

  1. Terminate TLS at your CDN or origin.
  2. 301 all http:// traffic.
  3. Send HSTS once you're confident nothing depends on plain HTTP.

How we test it

We check the final URL after following every redirect hop.

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