Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-07-25/Technology report

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I'm going to switch to using the secure Wikipedia servers right away. I hope HTTPS reaches all users soon. --Nathan2055 ^talk 00:11, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I tried using it a few times in the past, but gave up because of the annoying way in which my browser keeps issuing warning notices every time a new page loads. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 12:09, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's worth noting that the dfevelopment work noted above would make those warnings a thing of the past (that is, if they are what I think they are -- "This page contains insecure items"). - Jarry1250 ^{[Weasel? Discuss.]} 14:32, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Google Chrome adds a bar to the top of each page saying "Insecure script has been blocked." and gives an option to load anyway. It's annoying, but not as annoying as Mozilla Firefox's dialogs. --Nathan2055 ^talk 16:47, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I used the secure servers for a long time, but occasionally I'd have long delays in page loading and it'd drive me nuts, probably not because of the overhead of HTTPS, but because the secure server infrastructure hasn't been scaled up fully yet. Dcoetzee 22:38, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]