{"id":1612,"date":"2019-07-09T04:14:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T04:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/porkbun.com\/blog\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2019-07-09T04:14:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T04:14:48","slug":"announcing-porkbuns-https-url-forwarder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porkbun.com\/blog\/announcing-porkbuns-https-url-forwarder\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing: Porkbun&#8217;s HTTPS URL Forwarder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/betamax.porkbun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fabian-grohs-fppwhfn6eis-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1613\" width=\"336\" height=\"419\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly 90% of browser traffic worldwide is securely transmitted over HTTPS. So why are most URL forwarders stuck in the insecure \u201890s?&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A URL forwarder allows you to redirect browser requests for your domain to another website. Unfortunately, nearly every URL forwarder on the market won\u2019t accept incoming connections over the modern, secure HTTPS protocol, forcing your customers to type HTTP:\/\/ (without the \u201cs\u201d) or risk the site not loading at all. At Porkbun, we decided that\u2019s unacceptable. So we built something better. The result? 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For instance, you could use your registrar\u2019s URL Forwarder to forward <a href=\"http:\/\/goosehollow.dev\">http:\/\/GooseHollow.dev<\/a> to an existing website at <a href=\"https:\/\/goosehollow.design\/development\">https:\/\/goosehollow.design\/development<\/a>&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, nearly every URL forwarder doesn\u2019t work on .dev and .app domains. Why? Due to a new technology known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/hstspreload.org\/\">HSTS Preload List,<\/a> your browser will refuse to load any .dev or .app website over the old, insecure HTTP protocol\u2014it\u2019s HTTPS or nothing! So, if you bought a .dev or .app domain and you want to temporarily redirect the domain to a placeholder website, you\u2019re out of luck.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026Unless you registered your domain at Porkbun, that is! Our HTTPS URL forwarder is automatic and \u201cjust works\u201d even on .dev and .app domains. 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