Is there a way in Chrome to use SSL by default?

What I would like to do is have Chrome automatically switch me to SSL connections if a site supports it.

So if I type for example: www.somesite.com in the browser I want Chrome to try to connect me straight to https://www.somesite.com if it doesn't exist, then redirect me to plain text http.

Is there a setting, plugin or some way to do this?

Update: The Electronic Frontier Foundation have a tool called HTTPS Everywhere for Firefox which does this but it's Firefox only.

Brock Woolf

Posted 2010-09-07T15:50:06.420

Reputation: 1 556

This question seems a little too old to answer, but HTTPS Everywhere is now available for Chrome too!

– Gaʀʀʏ – 2014-06-21T13:07:31.090

Answers

Take a look at the Secure Sites extension for Chrome.

Doug Harris

Posted 2010-09-07T15:50:06.420

Reputation: 23 578

Perfect, exactly what I was after. – Brock Woolf – 2010-09-12T14:29:35.187

-1

To my knowledge there isn't a plugin that does this. Without actually trying to go to the site as https there is no information on a page to tell you if it is even listening for secure requests.

Currently your best bet is to bookmark the sites that you use frequently as https and visit them through those links.

Joshua

Posted 2010-09-07T15:50:06.420

Reputation: 4 434

What if I click on a link to a site I haven't visited before. I want an SSL connection without using bookmarks or typing HTTPS manually as I do now. – Brock Woolf – 2010-09-07T15:59:12.320