Well, automatic if you use Firefox or Chrome at least. As detailed in a recent post, there are continuing problems with accessing facebook, if you use a desktop PC/laptop in Kazakhstan. Whilst there are multiple ways of fixing this issue (Opera’s Turbo mode (effectively a proxy server), adding m. or touch. instead of www., or changing http:// to https:// at the beginning of the URL), I discovered an extension/plugin that automates the switching from http to https. This is especially useful if you click links in an e-mail from facebook, as these links start with http.
Anyway, either visit the Chrome extension page, or download the Firefox Add-On.
If you discover that some websites no longer display correctly, you can create exceptions, so that https everywhere allows the (normal, but not secure) http protocol to be used instead.
Jul 25 2013
July 29th, 2013 3:23 pm
I meant to say that one explanation offered for this continuing issue is just laughable – http://rus.azattyq.org/content/facebook-kazakhstan/25048793.html
The idea that facebook has _just_ enabled https for _Kazakhstan_ ….
It has been available for years, and I’m pretty certain they wouldn’t enable https a country at a time.