Talk:Make sure you have a password/Archives/2013

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secure.wikimedia.org

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We should make it more easy to find out the url of the different wikis on the secure server. I cannot find the secure URL for meta anywhere! Firefoxman 16:40, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

This is intentional. The secure server is not particularly stable, and it cannot handle much of a load at all. Its only reason for existence was to help in solving the AOL problem; it is not meant to be a secure alternative to the http servers. While a solution to use encrypted log-ins is being worked on as we speak, it is not yet implemented--until then, people are to be advised to just use the standard http server. See, for example, this post. AmiDaniel 18:30, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

..."It's an experimental interface"... this reminds me of Wikipedia at the beginning, what was then not experimental ? ;-) Fantasy 容 21:01, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. The secure sever is apparently stable enough to be used by default by everyone, so I added the secure URL for meta to this article. See HTTPS, Wikipedia: Wikipedia: Secure server, etc. for more details. --DavidCary (talk) 15:51, 21 September 2013 (UTC)