On Jul 2, 2025, at 10:19 AM, sunbeamcar--- via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Why did you make FREEDOS.org a secure site. > That greatly limits what you can use on the site. > All OLD computers are locked out.
While I cannot speak to why FreeDOS.org specifically is forcing a secure connection, I can give a generalization as to why many sites do this. A few years back, Google and other search engines began penalizing websites that allowed non-encrypted connections. Even if a site provided both HTTP and HTTPS, they would “Artificially” push the site further down in search results. They have only increased the amount they penalize sites that permit browsing via HTTP. This is the reason I personally have two separate sib-domain URLs to visit my Unofficial FreeDOS Download and Update Repository. The main URL is https://fd.lod.bz/repos and it forces a TLS encrypted connection (HTTPS). There is sprat subdomain that points to the same repositories on that server. It allows both HTTP and HTTPS. It works great in DOS using the Lynx text only web browser and can be visited by going to http://dos.lod.bz/repos This allows me to have a state of the art encrypted connection for https://fd.lod.bz to satisfy search engines. But, still permit access by programs in DOS or other “older” web browsers that do not have the newest encryption algorithms. :-)
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