This is similar to this previous question, but I believe it's a bit different*.
Sites like GMail support a preference that pushes all traffic through the SSL edition of the site rather than the plain-text protocol.
For sites that don't offer such preferences (or ones that may, but I have been unable to find, like facebook), is there a way using only the browser (perhaps with a plugin or addon) to always try SSL first, and fall-back to plain-text iff SSL fails?
Is that solution available on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux? Just one?
* The previous question was looking for external applications that would accomplish this goal.
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Even if you could find such a solution, you'd have the problem that some web servers will always answer https requests, but won't send you to the website's page. Most likely your browser will end up on some landing page of the web server. An application would not be able to distinguish a landing page from the page you actually want. I'd check the similar question for external programs... I'm not sure if you can accomplish this without an external program.
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