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My home page is on an insecure host. Not in itself a bad idea, hell there's nothing there
I could care about. Okay you can see what stores I like to visit on my 'shopping' page. LOL

I have a link that launches thunderbird: thunderbird %u
and in settings my home page, which is set to open on startup, is set to http://....

If I hit the home key on the toolbar I do get the home page.

But when TB launches now and then I get something like 'appache server is operating normally.

What? If I click the url and try editing it just to see what it is, it shows https://.

Any ideas what I can tweak.
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On Sat, 16 May 2026 10:23:28 -0400, Alan K. wrote:

But when TB launches now and then I get something like 'appache
server is operating normally.

That sounds like the default home page you get on an Apache
installation when it cannot identify which virtual site the browser is
asking for, and falls back to the default one.
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Alen,

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote :

That sounds like the default home page you get on an Apache
installation when it cannot identify which virtual site the browser is
asking for, and falls back to the default one.

IOW, likely no (or unrecognised) "host" entry in the request headers.

IIRC you can set Apache to return the HTTP request as a HTML page. Enable
it and see what you send to it.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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On 5/17/26 4:53 AM, R.Wieser wrote:

Alen,

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote :

That sounds like the default home page you get on an Apache
installation when it cannot identify which virtual site the browser is
asking for, and falls back to the default one.

IOW, likely no (or unrecognised) "host" entry in the request headers.

IIRC you can set Apache to return the HTTP request as a HTML page. Enable
it and see what you send to it.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

Problem is, it's not my server to admin. Not that I can't contact them.
If the consensus is the server needs a tweak, I'll pass it on.
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"Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> Wrote in message:

My home page is on an insecure host. Not in itself a bad idea, hell there's nothing there
I could care about. Okay you can see what stores I like to visit on my 'shopping' page. LOL

I have a link that launches thunderbird: thunderbird %u
and in settings my home page, which is set to open on startup, is set to http://....

If I hit the home key on the toolbar I do get the home page.

But when TB launches now and then I get something like 'appache server is operating normally.

What? If I click the url and try editing it just to see what it is, it shows https://.

Any ideas what I can tweak.

IIUC you have an http link in Thunderbird which takes you to an https page in Firefox.

Do you have 'https-only' mode set in Firefox settings?
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Alan,

IOW, likely no (or unrecognised) "host" entry in the request headers.

IIRC you can set Apache to return the HTTP request as a HTML page.
Enable it and see what you send to it.

Problem is, it's not my server to admin. Not that I can't contact them.

Ah, thataway. My bad. I assumed it was yours to do with as you pleased.

If the consensus is the server needs a tweak, I'll pass it on.

I'm not at all *sure* about it, but checking the request headers would be a good first step..

Instead of changing the webites PHP code to check your requests headers you can use the below link instead :

https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-http-headers-is-my-browser-sending/

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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On 5/17/26 1:25 PM, Dave Royal wrote:

"Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> Wrote in message:

My home page is on an insecure host. Not in itself a bad idea, hell there's nothing there
I could care about. Okay you can see what stores I like to visit on my 'shopping' page. LOL

I have a link that launches thunderbird: thunderbird %u
and in settings my home page, which is set to open on startup, is set to http://....

If I hit the home key on the toolbar I do get the home page.

But when TB launches now and then I get something like 'appache server is operating normally.

What? If I click the url and try editing it just to see what it is, it shows https://.

Any ideas what I can tweak.

IIUC you have an http link in Thunderbird which takes you to an https page in Firefox.

Do you have 'https-only' mode set in Firefox settings?

Thanks but no it's off.
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On Sat, 16 May 2026 10:23:28 -0400, "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com>
wrote:

My home page is on an insecure host. Not in itself a bad idea, hell there's nothing there
I could care about. Okay you can see what stores I like to visit on my 'shopping' page. LOL

I have a link that launches thunderbird: thunderbird %u
and in settings my home page, which is set to open on startup, is set to http://....

If I hit the home key on the toolbar I do get the home page.

But when TB launches now and then I get something like 'appache server is operating normally.

What? If I click the url and try editing it just to see what it is, it shows https://.

Any ideas what I can tweak.

maybe this have some usefull help? https://www.lifewire.com/change-the-default-browser-in-thunderbird-2532751
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Dunno if I misunderstood:

thunderbird open non https link <https://www.google.com/search?channel=entpr&q=thunderbird+open+non+https+link> --

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On Mon, 18 May 2026 14:34:42 +0200, lisa wrote:

maybe this have some usefull help? https://www.lifewire.com/change-the-default-browser-in-thunderbird-2532751

Thanks for this. Just this week I noticed that when I clicked on a
link in a message, Betterbird would open it in Firefox though my
system default browser is Chrome. Setting those two preferences to
True fixed the problem, and I didn't even need to do the third step.
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