I have noticed that the FB forum (ie the website) is not secure. It says so in the address bar.
The other FB forums such as the German language www.FreeBASIC-Portal.de or www.qbasic.at use a secure connection.
(If you look at the protocol in the address bar it says https:\... rather than http which is the case with this site.)
It may not be a huge issue but I do believe that people would feel safer if this could be addressed.
Why is the forum not secure?
Re: Why is the forum not secure?
The warning is shown when you are accessing this forum using an unencrypted HTTP connection rather than encrypted HTTPS. Additionally recent versions of Firefox display a warning when logging in as the credentials are not transferred in a secure manner that way. This is usually not a big issue when you are accessing the forums via your private internet connection at home, but you shouldn't log in to the forums that way when you're using a public internet connection like e.g. a public WiFi hotspot.
To fix it simply use the following URL:
https://freebasic.net/forum/
(instead ofhttp://freebasic.net/forum/ - note the https instead of http)
To fix it simply use the following URL:
https://freebasic.net/forum/
(instead of
Re: Why is the forum not secure?
@Admins:
Could the forum be configured in such a way that it redirects to the secure (HTTPS) site by default?
(btw, this topic better should have been in the "Community Discussion" section; maybe it can be moved?)
Could the forum be configured in such a way that it redirects to the secure (HTTPS) site by default?
(btw, this topic better should have been in the "Community Discussion" section; maybe it can be moved?)
Re: Why is the forum not secure?
in prep to donate fbcadcam dot com,net,org to fb community i have been cleaning up the house if you will and for the dot net (for the forum) i ordered an SSL and had the same issues to force https. this is how i think i manged to do it, by setting the dot htaccess file(s) in dot net root and forum directory and some forum sub directories to:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^fbcadcam\.net$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.fbcadcam\.net$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^fbcadcam\.net$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.fbcadcam\.net$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]