The American people expect government websites to be secure and their interactions with those websites to be private. Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) offers the strongest privacy protection available for public web connections with today’s internet technology. The use of HTTPS reduces the risk of interception or modification of user interactions with government online services.
This proposed initiative, "The HTTPS-Only Standard," would require the use of HTTPS on all publicly accessible Federal websites and web services.
We encourage your feedback and suggestions.
We encourage your feedback and suggestions on this proposal, either here on GitHub or by emailing [email protected] to provide private comments.
Concurrent with the public engagement of Project Open Data and the U.S. Digital Service Playbook, suggestions and discussions are welcome via GitHub Issues. You may also propose changes to the content directly by submitting a pull request.
You don't need to install any software to suggest a change. To propose a change from your browser, select the proposal. You can use GitHub's in-browser editor to edit files and submit a "pull request" for your changes to be merged into the document.
If you would like to see and discuss the changes that other people have proposed, visit the "Pull Requests" section and browse the issues.
Feedback collected on the proposal text before April 14, 2015 will be considered for inclusion in the revised policy. The other pages on https.cio.gov are resources for agencies implementing the HTTPS proposal. Contributions are welcome at any time to these living documents.
This site uses Jekyll, Sass, Bourbon, Neat, and requires Ruby 2.x.
Install dependencies with Bundler:
bundle install
Start up a Sass watcher to keep assets auto-compiled:
make watch
And run the site with Jekyll:
bundle exec jekyll serve --watch
If all goes well, visit the site at http://localhost:4000.
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