On 14/04/15 13:32, Eric Shepherd wrote: > My main concern with the notion of phasing out unsecured HTTP is that > doing so will cripple or eliminate Internet access by older devices that > aren't generally capable of handling encryption and decryption on such a > massive scale in real time. > > While it may sound silly, those of us who are intro classic computers > and making them do fun new things use HTTP to connect 10 MHz (or even 1 > MHz) machines to the Internet. These machines can't handle the demands > of SSL. So this is a step toward making their Internet connections go away.
If this is important to you, then you could simply run them through a proxy. That's what jwz did when he wanted to get Netscape 1.0 running again: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/03/happy-run-some-old-web-browsers-day/ Gerv _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
