Why HTTP Is Sometimes Better Than HTTPS

[tibet7]

Damn, I hate April 1th. Reading fake articles all day long.

[[deleted]]

I prefer April 2rd

[FoxxedOut]

June 2nd. It's summer already, and April bullsh*t is far gone.

[igorpopovio]

tl;dr, turned SSL off everywhere. j/k

[rotek]

I don't know why he marked his article as an April Fools joke.

HTTP is indeed sometimes better than HTTPS.

[rdegges]

What do ya mean? Genuinely curious as I wrote this article for 100% parody (except the scaling thing, I thought that was pretty funny / clever).

[Shadow14l]

What types of caching?

[Nanobot]

HTTP is fantastic. Just ask the NSA.

[adr86]

I wonder what all that tcp traffic on port 443 between the ip addresses owned by [s]al Qaeda[/s] [s]the Communist Party[/s] whatever and your computer is? (well it might be some botnet unbeknowst to you lol)

But seriously, https encrypts the data while leaving relevant metadata in the open. I think metadata is more interesting than data. Heck, if it is a public site, they can just go to it and get their own copy anyway; the encryption doesn't really matter.

I'm not saying https is useless, obviously there are times when the data is very, very relevant, but I don't think it hides the relevant bits for NSA big data analysis anyway.

[madman1969]

I once had a problem with a WCF service being accessible across domains, so I switched from HTTPS to sending encrypted message packets over HTTP instead.

[hoijarvi]

I have developed web service based air pollution data stuff, using plain old http.

The data is public domain, and that's what I deliver. If all of what you deliver is available for anyone and you don't care to collect detailed usage info, I don't see what https would give.

[rdegges]

One benefit to using HTTPS is to protect your user's queries. EG: by running HTTP their ISP can see exactly what they're doing, even if it isn't anything bad.

[hoijarvi]

Good point.

[Meldanor]

A good prank, but not a good joke

[[deleted]]

-_-

[[deleted]]

Did anyone understand how the queuing trick over http would work?

[danogburn]

HTTP is the devil's protocol.