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> There have been differing opinions between the dev teams and committee regarding if the site should be moved to https (SSL encrypted) only.<br>
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> It is my personal belief that in this day and age that everything that can be secure in transit is configured so that it is. Google etc seem to feel the same - as all of their services are available via https (yes, even YouTube!).<br>
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<p>Yes, available by https.. </p>
<p>Some old arguments against, like fear of excessive cpu, are unfounded. Those are not the only reasons.</p>
<p>> I'd like to get the opinion of the list into if Melbourne Wireless should default to https access to the site - thereby reaping the benefits of SSL. Existing non-ssl access (ie via <a href="http://www.melbournewireless.org.au">http://www.melbournewireless.org.au</a>) will be redirected to the secure version of the same content.<br>
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<p>Unavailable by http - that's not the same thing.</p>
<p>> This has the up side that by default, everything on the site will be secure from eavesdropping on unsecured connections. A side benefit is that it will also consolidate all our domains within various search engines - increasing our ranking.<br>
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<p>Careful with that axe, Eugene.</p>
<p>It's my understanding that search engines do not generally index ssl content. This from when I was suggesting we do something similar for a new bank a few years back.</p>
<p>So if you care about that, think again.</p>