Non-secure/SSL Issue in 14.0.1
It looks like there may be a caching issue with FF 14.0.1. If you visit any site securely... let's say "https://support.mozilla.org" and you close your browser and reopen it and type "http://support.mozilla.org" or "support.mozilla.org" you automatically get served the secure version of the site. This isn't a server side redirect, it looks like the browser is caching that you have once accessed the domain securely and now everytime you visit that is what you want to do. No other browser I have tried behaves like this for any of the websites we operate. This creates issues on multiple areas of our sites because certain areas were intended to be accessed non-securely. I understand that a well designed site would be able to support accesses through either protocol throughout every part of a website. However we have many sites and many were programmed long long ago and just updated through all of the revisions, so updating all of them would be very time consuming.
So my question is... are others noticing this caching behavior? Is it intended? Is it a bug?
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Hi barth.shawn, you might employ the server-side redirect posted in the first link above if applicable.
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This is related to the URL bar autofill feature. Please see these threads:
Thank you. That certainly answers the question. I just worry that we might get customer complaints from this kind of thing... for example if they end up at the secure version one of our sites and do a search it carries out a request on an unsecure page and they get the warning and question our credibility. We certainly can't ask that they change their settings, so hopefully this is something considered in a future update.
Again I appreciate the response. This was most heplful!
Chosen Solution
Hi barth.shawn, you might employ the server-side redirect posted in the first link above if applicable.