Re: [gentoo-user] This Connection is Untrusted: WAS: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 02/27/12 13:43, Florian Philipp wrote:
>
> Just a small follow-up: A neat server-sided trick I didn't know until
> now is HTTP Strict Transport Security [1]. It prevents users from
> clicking away SSL warnings and prevents mixed content.
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security
>
> Regards,
> Florian Philipp

This is nice, although, as with all nice things, it doesn't work in
Internet Explorer.

We try to hack together the same effect using Apache's mod_rewrite and
redirects, but it's hard to get right. Most off-the-shelf web apps (e.g.
Wordpress) do their best to thwart you.