Opera GX forcing HTTPS

[alessiofalcone]

alessiofalcone last edited by

Hi all,
I am having this problem with Opera GX: when I try to go on a website responding on HTTP, my browser automatically rewrites the URL and HTTPS appears. Obviously if the website is responding on HTTP, I get no response on HTTPS.
I have already tried the following things:

1. clear cache (from Settings)
2. clear site data (from Ctrl + Shift + J -> Application -> Clear site data)
3. disable cache (from Ctrl + Shift + J -> Network -> Disable data)
4. disable all my extensions
5. Settings -> Privacy & security -> Security -> Always use secure connections (it has always been disabled, I tried also to toggle it to enabled then to disabled again)
6. Settings -> Privacy & security -> Security -> Protect me from malicious sites (it has always been enabled, but disabling it makes no difference)
7. update browser and try again all the above points. My current Opera GX version is LVL5 (core: 107.0.5045.60).

A weird thing is that with incognito mode my browser lets me go on the website using HTTP. I can't figure out what is going on.
Can someone please tell me how to make my website to be surfed using HTTP without going in incognito mode?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @alessiofalcone last edited by

@alessiofalcone How is the behavior on other Chromium browsers? Most browsers nowadays will always try to connect using a secure connection.

Did you try to remove the s in the page address?

[alessiofalcone]

alessiofalcone @leocg last edited by

@leocg I've tried to remove the "s" in the url of course. Opera GX still redirects me to the https website. But not in incognito mode... Here it keeps the http and lets me view my website.
I've tried with Google chrome and works as expected, keeping the http, without forcing the https

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @alessiofalcone last edited by

@alessiofalcone Did you test with all extensions disabled?

[alessiofalcone]

alessiofalcone @leocg last edited by

@leocg yes, I did

[ladelfa]

ladelfa @alessiofalcone last edited by

In case anyone else comes looking for the solution to this, I believe I've found it. The part the original poster was missing might have been deleting the HSTS policy along with the history and cache.

1. Open the URL opera://net-internals/#hsts

2. Put the affected domain name in the bottom box, "Delete domain security policies," and click the Delete button.

3. Open opera://history

4. Put the domain in the "Search history" box. If any matches come up, hover over one and "Remove entire domain"

5. Open opera://settings/clearBrowserData

6. Select More > All Time, deselect all checkboxes except "Cached images and files," and click Delete data.

7. Browse to your URL explicitly using http:// instead of https://

I did not need to restart Opera to make this take effect. Hope this helps someone out there who's been wasting as much time as I just did trying to figure this out.