Browsing test, please

[Marauder2003]

When I browse to this site, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory
It gets changed to https and I get a 404 error.

Columbia I.T. Claims there is no problem on their end. They don?t have a certificate so http should work. I have tried the link in 7 browsers on my iPad. They all fail.

What say youse guys?

[sealocan]

Using my Android phone just now I do not get a 404 error (although it does look like a web page from 1987 ) but there is a statement at that page that says they're getting reports of them...

.... "....Reports are arriving from people who find that attempts to access this site (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory) from certain browsers (both computer-based and cell-phone based) fail with a 404 code ("page not found"), indicating that for these browsers "non-secure" websites no longer even exist. Need I say that there is no way that a read-only website is non-secure? Nevertheless, this is no doubt a trend, and soon all other browsers (e.g. Firefox) will succumb to it. I'll see if I can find a new home for the site."

[Marauder2003]

Funny, I just used Firefox on my Galaxy S24 Ultra and it worked. I will contact the author with the Columbia incident number.

[ibanezfoo]

Haha nice try FBI guy

[arrix]

The website isn't set-up for https. Maybe you have a browser plugin that automatically tries https instead of http?

[SkyHawk]

I get a 404 over https on my ipad

There is an archive for it from 2012 here

https://archive.ph/u0eW

and up to 2024 here

https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory

this tester also gives 404

https://www.webpagetest.org/result/240321_AiDcCS_HWR/