{"id":5946,"date":"2017-08-29T05:21:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T03:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openstate.mu.openstate.eu\/en\/?page_id=5946"},"modified":"2025-01-13T15:22:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:22:30","slug":"pulse-https-and-government-sites","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/projects-tools-data\/results\/https-government-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulse: HTTPS government sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulse.openstate.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pulse<\/a> shows whether government websites support the HTTPS protocol (https:\/\/) and how strong the implementation is of HTTPS. Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulse.openstate.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pulse<\/a> analyses the support, the enforcing and the quality of HTTPS of public accessible Dutch government domains. Until now government policy is that HTTPS is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forumstandaardisatie.nl\/standaard\/https\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recommended<\/a> for Dutch government websites, the underlying protocol <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forumstandaardisatie.nl\/standaard\/tls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TLS<\/a> is however <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forumstandaardisatie.nl\/standaard\/tls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">required<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulse.openstate.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pulse<\/a> analyses the behaviour of four &#8216;endpoints&#8217; of each domain: http:\/\/, http:\/\/www, https:\/\/, en https:\/\/www. Data of these endpoints are used to determine the total behaviour of the domain. For the analysis use is being made of <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dhs-ncats\/pshtt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open source<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/18F\/domain-scan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tools<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssllabs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SSL Labs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ssllabs\/ssllabs-scan\/blob\/stable\/ssllabs-api-docs.md\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">API<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/2016\/12\/open-state-launches-pulse-many-dutch-government-websites-not-secure\/\">first scan<\/a> showed that many Dutch government websites still use no secure HTTPS connection. Of the 1,816 investigated domains less than half ensures that the site traffic is encrypted. Of all registered Dutch government websites, including websites of the central government, municipalities, provinces and common arrangements, <a href=\"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/2016\/12\/open-state-launches-pulse-many-dutch-government-websites-not-secure\/\">only 44% use an HTTPS connection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulse shows whether government websites support the HTTPS protocol (https:\/\/) and how strong the implementation is of HTTPS. Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/projects-tools-data\/results\/https-government-sites\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":5952,"parent":9120,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"views\/project-page.blade.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5946","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pulse-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5946"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12619,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5946\/revisions\/12619"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}