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Veldkornet

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Out of curiosity, will SNB get IPv6 support any time soon?


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I asked Tim this a few months back and he said it's not a priority at this time.
 
Still not a priority. Higher priority is moving to HTTPS.
 
Out of interest, what's the holdup for HTTPS? Anything we forum members can do?

Back when this was first asked on the forums, Tim said it was advertisers not all supporting https, which means you'd end up with a site with a mixture of http and https links - that generates warnings in browsers.
 
For a website like this you dont need https. The only part that needs https is the login and profile section. https does add processing load for both server and client. I dont think all the advice and information on this website needs to be encrypted, its meant to be looked at by everyone.
 
For a website like this you dont need https. The only part that needs https is the login and profile section. https does add processing load for both server and client. I dont think all the advice and information on this website needs to be encrypted, its meant to be looked at by everyone.

For some reason, there are people out there who wants to use a public network (the Internet) while making everything as private and hidden as if it was happening in their bathroom. Often there's no rational reason behind it, just "because I want it so". Kinda like another infamous debate that has been raging for years in the US (you'll know which one I'm referring to, let's leave it at that...)

SSL/TLS reduces performance, both from a network point of view and from a server point of view (due to the increased workload of encrypting/decrypting stuff). I agree that beyond the login part, the only fringe reason someone *might* actually *need* it is if they were sharing some kind of private, confidential info through PMs. Considering that a forum's PM is hardly the most secure way of communicating, I think that doesn't really carry any weight in itself.

So IMHO, SSL/TLS support on SNBForums isn't really that vital, and I can see it having a very low priority.
 
IPv6 is waiting for my host to support it. I'd rather do it natively vs. Cloudflare, which I may drop at some point.

HTTPS could be implemented. It's just very low on the priority list right now. As noted, Forums login is really the only place it is needed.
 

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