Solved Websites reporting not Secure but it is

becm

@astero yes, the redirect for http://maps.google.com is actually designed badly by

redirecting to the insecure http://maps.google.com/maps before doing a
proper HTTPS redirect to https://www.google.com:443/maps.

When disabling HTTPS enforcement in the browser settings, it might trigger on the initial improper/insecure user input and/or intermediate redirect.

DoctorG

@astero I never saw this issue with 6.9.3447.48 Win 11 23H2.

Typing maps.google.com in address field is fetching http://maps.google.com and redirect with HTTP Status 302 without any issues to https://maps.google.com
Checked with Developer Tools → Network log.

Usually is a redirect with status code 301, so the double redirect with status 302 is weird and a misconfiguration fo Google servers.

DoctorG

@becm said in Websites reporting not Secure but it is:

When disabling HTTPS enforcement in the browser settings

Where is such in Vivaldi Settings? The setting to Always Use HTTPS is disabled as standard.

yngve

@astero Given that maps.google.com does support HTTPS, my first (paranoid) thought about this case is some kind of network interception device (e.g. a proxy intended to read all traffic) that try to force all traffic to HTTP, although a captive Wifi portal might be a possibility (they may also close secure connections if you are not yet authenticated).

However, considering that you provide no information about how you started to load this page, your network situation, and apparently haven't tried the trouble shooting steps, especially the Guest Profile step, I can't say anything about what happened here.

astero

@yngve said in Websites reporting not Secure but it is:

although a captive Wifi portal might be a possibility (they may also close secure connections if you are not yet authenticated)

Nope, I am on my home wifi, no captive portals are involved here.

@DoctorG said in Websites reporting not Secure but it is:

I never saw this issue with 6.9.3447.48 Win 11 23H2.

it happens not always, but intermittently. When I type the Google Maps address manually now, it goes fine. I must to note that I type all urls manually.

@becm said in Websites reporting not Secure but it is:

yes, the redirect for http://maps.google.com is actually designed badly

obviously it is more a bad design of Vivaldi than maps.google.com. Why I've never seen such redirects along with such creepy error screens on other browsers? A rhetoric question.