The Reddit today launched support HTTPS for all its pages through CloudFlare, a popular CDN service and DNS. Η κίνηση αυτή σημαίνει ότι όλοι του οι χρήστες πλέον μπορούν να χρησιμοποιούν κρυπτογραφημένες συνδέσεις κατά την περιήγηση στην ιστοσελίδα.
For those who do not know, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is a secure communication protocol. Despite the name, technically not a protocol on its own, as it is made up of the protocol SSL / TLS with a mattress HTTP.
All your communications from today, including audit credentials identity your and cookies will not be visible from attacks Man-in-the-middle.
This is because the policy it uses Reddit is to redirect anybody else HTTPS requests containing your credentials to HTTPS. But the company says this won't work for everyone because it "cannot force those using client APIs, such as applications κινητών ή bots, ή ορισμένα παλαιότερα programs browsing, to use this setting.