firefox forcing https
This question has been asked before but never a satisfactory answer.
I’ on my home lan. Then router has an embedded web server that is required to admin the box. The web server does not implement ssl. When I enter the router’s ip into FF - 192.169.1.1 - it gets changed to https://192.168.1.1. There is, of course, no such beast so I can never contact the router.
This is a new - and very unhelpful - behavior in FF.
There absolutely needs to be a way to disable this “feature” or to provide a whitelist where sites (like my router) can be entered and which FF will not mess with.
I hope I’ve made this clear enough that no one is going to tell me that I need to reconfigure my web server to allow http or to do anything else that is impossible with an inherently insecure server embedded in firmware.
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Do you have HTTPS Everywhere installed?
Do you really mean that 169 in the IP changes to 168 or is this a typo and the only get the secure https ?
You can try to rename/remove SiteSecurityServiceState.txt in the Firefox profile folder with Firefox closed.
You can use the button on the "Help -> Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page to go to the current Firefox profile folder or use the about:preferences page.
- Help -> Troubleshooting Information -> Profile Directory:
Windows: Show Folder; Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
typo, I blunder a lot on the ipad pseudo keyboard. I’ try what you suggested.