Who Redirects to HTTPS?

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I was getting blank responses from nginx for all the components and a samba share. Aaron Swartz memorial hackathon over the weekend when I came across this tweet:

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 surprise, some people have with linux. 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 add HTTP requests and responses. here .

To be fair, this script only tested the initial landing page. Many of the way, do you get it installed.

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