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Discussion on: HTTPS In Development: A Practical Guide

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Ashley Sheridan

The default answer to whether or not to use HTTPS should not be yes. If you don't know how to answer the question, then ask the help of someone who can answer.

HTTPS can actually have a huge impact on performance. Content is unable to be cached correctly by many systems (e.g. proxy caching), and this can actually lead to the web being completely unusable: thenextweb.com/contributors/2018/0...