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I just wrote a rule in my .htaccess to redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS. It seems pretty common, but I was just wondering if that could have any negative effect. As far as I know it actually helps as far as SEO is concerned. Is there any scenario where a user wants non secure access, can't access a secured site or anything like that? Or am I missing something else besides SEO and accessibility?

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There's a post about this on Server Fault. The consensus appears to be that this is a good idea.

This blog post covers some of the drawbacks. There's also this post from the Information Security Stack Exchange.

If you use AdSense, you might see a decrease in earnings due to the forced SSL compliance.

Your site may perform differently than it would using HTTP.

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