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kijin on Oct 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Github: Major Service Outage

The web app is also available on port 443, which every "corporate github user" should have been using anyway.

wfarr on Oct 19, 2012 [–]

In fact, all HTTP access redirects to HTTPS for just about everything. And most modern browsers (recent versions of Chrome and Safari) that have accessed a website over HTTPS once happen to _prefer_ HTTPS by default for that site.

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