The Reddit launched support HTTPS for all pages using CloudFlare, a popular CDN service and DNS. The move means that all the users can now use encrypted connections when browsing the site.
For those not familiar, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is a secure communication protocol. Despite the name, however, is not technically a protocol of its own, as it consists of the SSL / TLS protocol with a layer of HTTP.
All your communications today, including authentication credentials, and your most cookies, will not be visible to attack man-in-the-middle.
This is due to the fact that the policy used by Reddit is to redirect any non-HTTPS requests containing your credentials to HTTPS. The company, however, says that this will not work for everyone, because it "can not force them to use client API, such as mobile applications or bots, or some older browsers, use this setting.
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