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Ask PG: When will HN get https authentication?

15 points by jasonlynes ↗ HN
I'm down in Austin for SXSW. And while I love seeing poor bastards pop up on my Firesheep sidebar, I can't use HN due to my own name popping up in there every time I open the page. When can we get https auth?

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mhusby
I build this for adding GZIP to HN for browsing on my mobile, but as a nice side effect it also does ssl

https://quickhn.appspot.com/

It is just a VERY simple proxy running on Google App Engine, if you want to throw up your own the source is on github here

https://github.com/matthusby/HN-Proxy

gasull
It's down.
mhusby
Yeah, there isn't really any error handling. If hn returns an error it just dies, just try reloading the page
wladimir
It's also faster than the original HN here.

Very nice work!

[dead] rick_2047
My money is on "not for a long time". I say this because HN is made by PG.

HN was made as a demo which has gone horribly viral. The original intent of HN was to show the world what can be done in terms of web tech. Thus this was made to "just work" (thus the most (in)famous design choice of using tables for layout). Also, PG is a very busy man and any time he gets to work on HN almost always goes into making it spam free and improving the ranking algo.