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HTTPS support in old browsers[edit]
What is the most recent and/or most commonly used web browser that does not support HTTPS?
If I remember correctly, Internet Explorer 3.0 running on Windows for Workgroups 3.1 (some people still run WFWG using an emulator to play those sweet 16-bit games that only run 16-bit Windows) didn't support HTTPS, but was it the last browser to do so? --Guy Macon (talk) 19:46, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
- I'm wondering about versions of TLS too. Older browsers probably won't support the current "minimum" encryption standards. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:27, 29 May 2017 (UTC).
- Hmmmm. Would not supporting the current minimum encryption standards prevent someone from accessing the HTTPS version of Wikipedia, or would some software somewhere along the line figure "40 bits are better than no encryption so I will allow it"? --Guy Macon (talk)
- That would be the mark of a good tech having set it up (or, well, a better tech than I, anyways). I know I wouldn't have configured anything that way. I would have simply written off anyone using a browser that doesn't support HTTPS or TLS as a lost cause or a hacker engaged in some weird bug-hunt. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 13:17, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
- HSTS might be of interest. Also, free advertisement for the EFF: install HTTPS Everywhere if you have not already done so. TigraanClick here to contact me 16:58, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
- That would be the mark of a good tech having set it up (or, well, a better tech than I, anyways). I know I wouldn't have configured anything that way. I would have simply written off anyone using a browser that doesn't support HTTPS or TLS as a lost cause or a hacker engaged in some weird bug-hunt. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 13:17, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
- Hmmmm. Would not supporting the current minimum encryption standards prevent someone from accessing the HTTPS version of Wikipedia, or would some software somewhere along the line figure "40 bits are better than no encryption so I will allow it"? --Guy Macon (talk)