{"id":175222,"date":"2023-10-31T11:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/google-chrome-now-auto-upgrades-to-secure-connections-for-all-users"},"modified":"2023-10-31T11:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:22:44","slug":"google-chrome-now-auto-upgrades-to-secure-connections-for-all-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/google-chrome-now-auto-upgrades-to-secure-connections-for-all-users","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome now auto-upgrades to secure connections for all users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-chrome-now-auto-upgrades-to-secure-connections-for-all-users2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google has taken a significant step towards enhancing Chrome internet security by automatically upgrading insecure HTTP requests to HTTPS requests for 100% of users.<\/p>\n<p>This feature is called <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dadrian\/https-upgrade\/blob\/main\/explainer.md\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HTTPS-Upgrades<\/a> and will secure old links that utilize the <a href='http:\/\/' rel='nofollow'>http:\/\/<\/a> by automatically attempting to first connect to the URL over the encrypted <a href='https:\/\/' rel='nofollow'>https:\/\/<\/a> protocol.<\/p>\n<p>A limited rollout of this feature in Google Chrome began in July, but as of October 16th, Google has now rolled it out to all users on the Stable channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has taken a significant step towards enhancing Chrome internet security by automatically upgrading insecure HTTP requests to HTTPS requests for 100% of users. This feature is called HTTPS-Upgrades and will secure old links that utilize the http:\/\/ by automatically attempting to first connect to the URL over the encrypted https:\/\/ protocol. A limited rollout [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1625,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}