Wikipedia:Secure server

This page reflects the historical state from the time that encryption was optional.

There are some cases that can break HTTPS security, which you should watch out for. Your browser may warn you, and you should report these problems (e.g. at ):

There are several situations when the secure server can be useful:

When using the secure server, most local links automatically use the secure server. When using external links you need to take an additional step. For instance, here's a link to a search for the words "secure server":

Instead consider writing:

To get what is known as a protocol relative link. It will use https for readers using https and http for readers using http.

However, there is no need to hardcode local links. If you need to add query parameters to a link, for instance when making links to special pages, then you can use the "{{fullurl:}}".

If you need to reach a non-English version of one of the projects, then {{}} can do that too, but you can also do it by hand:

First go to the English version of the project by using the start page of the secure server. Then manually edit the URL in the address bar to change the part that selects the language. For instance, the German language prefix is "de", so change this:

To this:

After you made such a link, you can save it in your browser's bookmarks, or save it on your user page. But don't put such hardcoded links in other pages or templates, since users who are connected to the normal servers probably don't want to be sent to the secure server.

The old secure server with URLs like has been deprecated since October 2011 and is no longer supported. As of 14 November 2012, it has been a redirect to .

If you are interested in the details of the secure connection being offered by the services, then you can inspect it with tools like: SSL Labs or SSL analyzer. The following details are non-authoritive information:

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