Upgrade-Insecure-Requests

The HTTP Upgrade-Insecure-Requests request header sends a signal to the server expressing the client's preference for an encrypted and authenticated response, and that it can successfully handle the upgrade-insecure-requests CSP directive.

Header type Request header
Forbidden header name no

Syntax

http

Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

Examples

A client's request signals to the server that it supports the upgrade mechanisms of upgrade-insecure-requests:

http

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

The server can now redirect to a secure version of the site. A Vary header can be used so that the site isn't served by caches to clients that don't support the upgrade mechanism.

http

Location: https://example.com/
Vary: Upgrade-Insecure-Requests

Specifications

Specification
Upgrade Insecure Requests
# preference

Browser compatibility

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See also