{"id":1691,"date":"2010-12-20T20:34:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T09:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2010-12-20T20:34:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T09:34:41","slug":"https-everywhere-an-easier-way-to-force-ssl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/https-everywhere-an-easier-way-to-force-ssl\/","title":{"rendered":"HTTPS Everywhere &#8211; An Easier Way to Force SSL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I covered how you could use <a title=\"Force Secure HTTP with NoScript | Boydo's Tech Talk\" href=\"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/force-secure-http-with-noscript\/\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox with the NoScript add-on to force Secure HTTP<\/a> (HTTPS) in order to protect yourself when using social networking websites on an unprotected wireless network or general usage anywhere else. The NoScript solution works fine but if you are less technically minded it could be a bit confusing to configure so there is another way to take all of that configuration out of the equation.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"HTTPS Everywhere | Electronic Frontier Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/https-everywhere\" target=\"_blank\">HTTPS Everywhere<\/a> from the\u00a0<a title=\"Electronic Frontier Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic\u00a0Frontier Foundation<\/a> in collaboration with <a title=\"The Tor Project\" href=\"https:\/\/www.torproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Tor Project<\/a> is another Firefox add-on that will force HTTPS on a number of websites, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>bit.ly<\/li>\n<li>Dropbox<\/li>\n<li>Evernote<\/li>\n<li>Facebook<\/li>\n<li>Google<\/li>\n<li>Hotmail<\/li>\n<li>Paypal<\/li>\n<li>Twitter<\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_1692\" style=\"width: 745px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/HTTPS-Everywhere-Preferences.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1692\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1692\" title=\"HTTPS Everywhere Preferences\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/HTTPS-Everywhere-Preferences.png?resize=745%2C319\" alt=\"HTTPS Everywhere Preferences\" width=\"745\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/HTTPS-Everywhere-Preferences.png?w=745&amp;ssl=1 745w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/HTTPS-Everywhere-Preferences.png?resize=300%2C128&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HTTPS Everywhere Preferences<\/p><\/div>\n<p>All that is required is the installation of the add-on and a restart of the Firefox browser and off you go. Of course, if you like to tinker with stuff, you can <a title=\"HTTPS Everywhere Rulesets | Electronic Frontier Foundation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/https-everywhere\/rulesets\" target=\"_blank\">write your own rulesets<\/a> to cover other sites that support SSL.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, there is an option that suits you between HTTPS Everywhere and NoScript!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I covered how you could use Firefox with the NoScript add-on to force Secure HTTP (HTTPS) in order to protect yourself when using social networking websites on an unprotected wireless network or general usage anywhere else. The NoScript solution works fine but if you are less technically minded it could be a bit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/https-everywhere-an-easier-way-to-force-ssl\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,63,78,173,24,110,108,560,248,22,250,18,23],"tags":[743,1178,1177,1179,2240,2268,2330,1051,1176,1053,541,1180,273,2239,2313],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browsers","category-communications","category-connectivity","category-email","category-facebook","category-firefox-browsers-technology","category-google","category-hotmail","category-secure","category-social-networking","category-ssl","category-technology","category-twitter","tag-bit-ly","tag-dropbox","tag-electronic-frontier-foundation","tag-evernote","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-hotmail","tag-https","tag-https-everywhere","tag-noscript","tag-paypal","tag-rulesets-ssl","tag-tor","tag-twitter","tag-wikipedia","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}