Opened 10 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#14086 closed defect (fixed)
Website link should use https URL
| Reported by: | Laurence 'GreenReaper' Parry | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | GUI | Version: | VirtualBox 4.3.26 |
| Keywords: | https | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | Windows |
Description
The link on the help menu for the VirtualBox website goes to http://www.virtualbox.org. It should go to https://www.virtualbox.org instead. Otherwise, VirtualBox users could be compromised unless they're paying strict attention (or VirtualBox gets on the auto-https: list and they're using a new browser).
This link should also be updated in the Help file, along with any others that use http: for a https: site. There may be other URLs within the codebase or used by it that need to be changed, e.g. update links.
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Thank you. The next 4.3 maintenance release will contain the fix. Actually www.virtualbox.org contains an automatic redirection from http to https but I agree that using https from the beginning is the right thing to do.