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-**/start:** old fart tought... 
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-Just forget about HTTP. It's **unencrypted**, which means that anybody over the network can sniff and look at what you are browsing. It's **insecure** which means that bad people can get in the middle and feed you malicious contents without your knowing.  
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-HTTPS is **encrypted** and cannot be cached by intermediate proxies, and while it depends on certificates, nowadays it's easy and free to obtain them and the overall process is autmated too.  
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-In other words: there is **no need to keep using HTTP**, switch over to **HTTPS** on all services. There is one place where //HTTP still make sense//, and is internally on your server between the actual service 
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-**/end** ...old fart tought. 
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-+ reverse proxy etc