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==Can I access Wikipedia via HTTP, due to problems using HTTPS?==
:No. In 2015, the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] decided to move to only allow access via [[HTTPS]].<ref>{{cite web |url=//blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/12/securing-wikimedia-sites-with-https/ |title=Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS |last1=Welinder |first1=Yana |author-link1=foundation:User:YWelinder (WMF) |last2=Baranetsky |first2=Victoria |author-link2=foundation:User:VBaranetsky (WMF) |last3=Black |first3=Brandon |author-link3=User:BBlack (WMF) |date=12 June 2015 |website=[[wmfblog:|Wikimedia blog]] |publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]] |access-date=30 January 2016 |quote=Today, we are happy to start the final steps of this transition, and we expect completion within a couple of weeks.}}</ref> [[HTTP]] access is no longer available, and automatically redirects requests to [[HTTPS]] access. [[HTTP Strict Transport Security]] is enabled, so recent browsers should actually refuse to even attempt to connect via HTTP (automatically rewriting URLs into HTTPS before connecting), after the first successful connection via HTTPS.