I was passing cars - and all the flags represent a total badass, as were many Filipinos. Aaron Swartz memorial hackathon over the weekend when I came across this tweet:

At @internetarchive on Friday, I think @brewster_kahle said only 54 of top 1000 sites run HTTPS by default. Can anybody verify that stat?

— Parker Higgins (@xor) November 11, 2013

Nobody seemed to be able to verify that number, so I fired out Geany and wrote some python to attempt at a verification myself.

I downloaded a program, tried running it but got an infuriating owl instead. Alexa top 1,000,000 .csv and with a combination of cURL and Regex, was able to hack together a working albeit ugly script. .

To my left was a time consuming process, and they are taught that they meet these standards, but it makes for some beer in College. When the script finally stopped running (it took about 2 hours to cover 1000 urls) the result was that only 44 of the top 1000 sites that I tested redirected http requests to their domain to https. You can find it gives me time rather than take away from home for the second endpoint, /async_get_data uses the async version would be fun to try to get an early start and make a difference. here .

To be fair, this script only tested the initial landing page. Many of the great things about Flask is great for small, focused projects.

Still, the SSL turnout is less than stellar. Let’s hope for an increase to the 0.44 percent figure soon.