Is this a joke? Seems to be the most bizarre example of a pivot for a service with such a straightforward purpose.
It’s like a vegan meat company also selling pork sausage just in case they miss out on some passing carnivores.
It’s like a vegan meat company also selling pork sausage just in case they miss out on some passing carnivores.
They had to add this because browsers now often auto append https:// to manually typed domain entries anyway. So it loads on https, then redirects to a http-only subdomain.
This way you can still find any captive portals needing you to login/accept T&Cs/etc. Which is what neverssl’s core purpose actually is.
On some devices typing “neverssl.com” will try to resolve https://neverssl.com without any form of http fallback. It may be actually pretty difficult to type :// on some devices too.
On these devices, if you ever visit “neverssl.com” when not behind a captive portal, you will get a a catchable redirect to http.
Then the next time you are behind a captive portal, if you type “neverssl.com” the browser resolve it to https like always, but will remember the cached redirect, and try to load the http version, letting you land at the captive portal page.