Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx does NOT default to https support

[David Woolley]

On 22/05/18 05:47, Mouse wrote:
> > PS. https support is essential now days
>
> Perhaps for what you want to do.  I do just fine without it, and,
> indeed, if lynx defaulted to HTTPS support on, I would disable it
> before building - I neither have nor want HTTPS support.  (On my home
> machines, that is.  At work, on work machines - I use lynx both at home
> and at work - I build an HTTPS-capable version because that's what work
> needs.)

The current advice to web site operators is that http sites should 
always redirect to https ones, and there is meta data on some sites that 
relates to this, although I forget the details.  It appears to be a 
policy pushed by Google, and it looks as though http sites will lose 
their position in Google's search results.

If you impose a no https policy on the internet, you will find that you 
can only access sites that don't know or care about current best practice.