[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #52783: Health Check mis-reports https functionality in certain situations

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#52783: Health Check mis-reports https functionality in certain situations
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 Reporter:  Ipstenu                              |       Owner:
                                                 |  peterwilsoncc
     Type:  defect (bug)                         |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  5.7.1
Component:  Site Health                          |     Version:  5.7
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests commit      |     Focuses:
  fixed-major                                    |
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Comment (by flixos90):

 Replying to [comment:43 peterwilsoncc]:
 > The downgrade in severity came from [comment:15 comment 15]. The
 documentation needs to be improved so end users know what to do and what
 questions to ask to improve the website.
 >
 > Without docs improvements it's kind of like a warning sign on highway
 without context: is the road slippery, wildlife unpredictable or something
 else.

 That comment to me still reads mostly as focused on the scenario where a
 site already has HTTPS. In that case, now the check that was causing
 problems has been removed.

 If your site is not using HTTPS at all, that is a severe issue the user
 needs to be informed about. Whether the site in that case supports SSL or
 not is of rather secondary nature I'd say, so even if that check is
 unreliable, not ''using'' HTTPS is a valid and critical error either way.

 So I think reducing the severity was done a bit out of context, I suggest
 to revert that bit due to the above.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/52783#comment:44>
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