Gmail Defaults To HTTPS [Gmail]
Gmail users had until now the choice to use http or https when connecting to the Gmail servers. Http offered performance advantages while https made up for it with an increase in security. Gmail users could either use the http or https protocol to connect to Gmail. The Gmail options provided the means to permanently switch to the https protocol which means that Google would automatically redirect http requests to https.
Changes have been announced to the way http and https connections are handled in Gmail in light of recent events. Google decided to roll out https for everyone which will redirect any request to connect to Gmail to https.
Gmail users had until now the choice to use http or https when connecting to the Gmail servers. Http offered performance advantages while https made up for it with an increase in security. Gmail users could either use the http or https protocol to connect to Gmail. The Gmail options provided the means to permanently switch to the https protocol which means that Google would automatically redirect http requests to https.
Changes have been announced to the way http and https connections are handled in Gmail in light of recent events. Google decided to roll out https for everyone which will redirect any request to connect to Gmail to https.
