RE: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read

["Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf () dessus com>]

On Tuesday, 31 December, 2019 02:48, Antonios Chariton <daknob.mac () gmail com> wrote:

> Ignoring the obvious reasons why TLS is needed and HTTP should not be
> used,

I am curious -- what exactly are those "obvious reasons"?  (And for the record HTTP *IS* being used, it is just being 
tunneled inside a TLS connection).

I certainly cannot fathom any "obvious reasons" ...

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