Why is bogleheads.org "not secure"? [HTTPS issue]

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Why is bogleheads.org "not secure"? [HTTPS issue]

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For the past few weeks I keep getting the following message when connecting to this site:

The connection to www.bogleheads.org is not secure
You are seeing this warning because this site does not support HTTPS. Learn more

Why is this happening?
(using latest Chrome)
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Re: Why is bogleheads.org "not secure"?

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The site supports HTTPS and is at https://bogleheads.org. http://bogleheads.org is plain HTTP but redirects to the HTTPS site. I'm guessing it's a combination of your bookmark, address bar history, or however you're going to the site still pointing to the HTTP version, and some feature in recent Chrome reflecting Google's increasingly aggressive efforts to phase out non-HTTPS protocols.
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Re: Why is bogleheads.org "not secure"?

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You should probably rule out user error and some sort of attack. One can have a lot of fun with SSL certificates.
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Re: Why is bogleheads.org "not secure"?

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Makefile wrote: Tue Oct 25, 2022 4:10 pm The site supports HTTPS and is at https://bogleheads.org. http://bogleheads.org is plain HTTP but redirects to the HTTPS site. I'm guessing it's a combination of your bookmark, address bar history, or however you're going to the site still pointing to the HTTP version, and some feature in recent Chrome reflecting Google's increasingly aggressive efforts to phase out non-HTTPS protocols.
Old bookmark was it!
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Re: Why is bogleheads.org "not secure"?

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^^^ Glad you found the problem, as we most definitely do redirect to https protocol.
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