HTTPS

[ozbob]

This forum can now be accessed under HTTPS protocol as desired.

Url -->  https://railbotforum.org

--> https://railbotforum.org/mbs/index.php

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS

HTTPS (also called HTTP over TLS,[1][2] HTTP over SSL,[3] and HTTP Secure[4][5]) is a protocol for secure communication over a computer network which is widely used on the Internet. HTTPS consists of communication over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) within a connection encrypted by Transport Layer Security or its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer. The main motivation for HTTPS is authentication of the visited website and protection of the privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.

In its popular deployment on the internet, HTTPS provides authentication of the website and associated web server with which one is communicating, which protects against man-in-the-middle attacks. Additionally, it provides bidirectional encryption of communications between a client and server, which protects against eavesdropping and tampering with or forging the contents of the communication.[6] In practice, this provides a reasonable guarantee that one is communicating with precisely the website that one intended to communicate with (as opposed to an impostor), as well as ensuring that the contents of communications between the user and site cannot be read or forged by any third party.

Historically, HTTPS connections were primarily used for payment transactions on the World Wide Web, e-mail and for sensitive transactions in corporate information systems. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, HTTPS began to see widespread use for protecting page authenticity on all types of websites, securing accounts and keeping user communications, identity and web browsing private.

More --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS

[aldonius]

It's 2016. Any website with any sort of two-way communication should be using HTTPS. Good move, Bob.

[ozbob]

^ thanks 

Transition to https:// is now effectively complete.  Occasionally mixed traffic will generate as legacy images that are not under https:// urls will be loaded.  In time these will disappear.

The important things, such as logon, registration, messages and text is all now encrypted if you use https://

[ozbob]

https is now active on the primary domain https://backontrack.org

Might take a while to clear caches etc. or if you are real keen flush DNS cache.