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Plain http traffic is not sent on to https

Someone who reaches the plain http address stays on an unencrypted connection, so anything typed on that page travels in the clear.

Last updated September 20, 2026

This week · About ten minutes

Why AI-built apps get this

An AI builder gives you HTTPS on the hosted address and stops there. The moment you point your own domain at it, the redirect, the certificate and every hard-coded http:// in a copied snippet become yours. Nothing in the build warns you, because from the inside everything still works.

What it affects

Someone who reaches the plain http address stays on an unencrypted connection, so anything typed on that page travels in the clear.

What the evidence line looks like

GET http://example.com returned 301 to https://example.com, certificate valid to 2026-12-01

Every finding on a result carries a line like this one: the request that was made and the answer that came back. You can run the same request yourself and get the same answer, which is the point.

The fix

Turn on the force https or automatic https redirect setting in your hosting dashboard so the plain address answers with a redirect to https.

Prompt for your coding agent

Plain http requests to this app do not redirect to https. Turn on the force-https option in your hosting dashboard, or add a permanent redirect at the server. Verify with curl -I on the http address.

A result gives you this prompt written for your builder, in its own dialect, and a batch prompt that carries every fix at once.

Incidents that involved this

  • Not verified

    First-quarter 2026 assessment of 200 apps

    183 of 200 vibe-coded apps, 91.5 percent, contained at least one vulnerability traceable to AI hallucination or missing security context.

    2026-04
    Read the incident
  • Declared

    CVE growth in AI-generated code

    CVE entries attributed to AI-generated code rose from 6 in January 2026 to more than 35 in March 2026.

    2026-03
    Read the incident
  • Observed

    5,600 vibe-coded apps scanned

    More than 2,000 vulnerabilities and more than 400 exposed secrets found across vibe-coded apps.

    2026-02
    Read the incident
  • Not verified

    Tenzai study of AI-built apps

    69 vulnerabilities across 15 apps built by five AI coding tools.

    2026-02
    Read the incident

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Last updated September 20, 2026