# Insecure connection at log-in?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-connection-at-log-in/798134>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [October 6, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-connection-at-log-in/798134 "2017-10-06T20:00:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-connection-at-log-in/798134/3 "2017-10-06T20:12:23Z")

</div>

Remove the “s” from “https” and you’ll be fine.

> [@Why does Firefos think the SDMB are not secure?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-firefos-think-the-sdmb-are-not-secure/791187/6):
>
> Newer versions of Firefox and Chrome bitch because we have a login box on the page and we don’t use https. In the nearly two decades that the SDMB has been around it’s never been a problem, but newer browsers are pushing for better security.
> 
> It’s not that big of a deal.
> 
> On Firefox, you can disable it by going into about:config (you’ll have to google the exact setting, I don’t remember it off the top of my head), but that enables or disables it everywhere. I don’t think it is possible to enable/disable it on a site by site basis in Firefox.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-connection-at-log-in/798134)._