Your connection to your important mail, social network is quite important. So is the web gone strong with HTTPS connection instead of HTTP which were primarily used for secure transactions online but you can also make sites forced to go with HTTPS connection.
What is HTTP in URL?
HTTPS or Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure is the combination of earlier versions of HTTP with SSL to provide better encryption of data of a network web server. So when you are making a payment transaction online on the web for a secure transactions HTTPS connections has to be used to reduce the cases of online thefts and prevent loss of credit card number stolen.
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Here is the procedure on how to force Facebook to login to login through HTTPS secured connection.
- First step is to go to “Account Settings” by logging into your Facebook account.
- Once you are into your account settings, look down for “Account Security” and then hit “Change”.
- And this is what you will see under Account Security –
- Now you know what to do and Check mark the box, click on ‘Save’ button.
That will do it for you. To test whether it’s working or not – just log off and login, you would see https connection in the URL not the normal previous HTTP. There you go with the confirmation.
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Everytime we go to the ACCOUNT settings on facebook it brings us to a FB account BUT! it is only a “duplicate” of the FB settings to be able to change the Browsing options but gives us a NON responsive options so it is NOT allowing us to use Https:// and keeps on bringing us back to the option of a NON secured site ! what can I do ? PLEASE HELP Our FB account is being being Hacked .