What are the pros and cons of a 100% HTTPS site?

Question

First, let me admit that what I know about HTTPS is pretty rudimentary. I don\'t know much about session security, encryption, or how either of those things is supposed to b

Answer 1

One of the concerns is that https traffic could be blocked, for example on Apple computers if you set parental control on it blocks https traffic because it can't read the encrypted content, you can read here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2900

https note: For websites that use SSL encryption (the URL will usually begin with https), the Internet content filter is unable to examine the encrypted content of the page. For this reason, encrypted websites must be explicitly allowed using the Always Allow list. Encrypted websites that are not on the Always Allow list will be blocked by the automatic Internet content filter.