How can I enable HTTP in Safari settings

I had exactly the same issue.

I managed to solve it by switching off “Not Secure Connection Warning” in Safari settings.

Settings App > Safari > Scroll to the Privacy & Security section > toggle off Not Secure Connection Warning

Hope this helps :-)

It means of course that the website you are trying to access is insecure and not protected in any way from malware, hacking, and remote intrusions. It’s likely very dangerous to try and load that URL.

If you insist go to Safari->Settings->Security and turn off the warnings and try again. Do you by chance have the "HTTPS-Only for Safari” extension installed also? That error message seems to say you do.

On a Mac, you can find this setting under the Security tab. Disable "Warn before connecting to a website over HTTP".

The latest version of Safari, v18.2 released in December, introduced this warning. It also introduced some features that will try HTTPS first and fallback to HTTP. From the release notes: Safari 18.2 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation

I only started seeing this today, but it might be due to the timing of when this update was (quietly) installed on my Mac.

I agree that this is a bug because this should be just a warning that lets you continue to the site and doesn't stop you from browsing. I've tried modifying other settings in Safari, but nothing else seems to let you through.

In the long run, it's best to ask the website owners to enable HTTPS and turn this warning back on, for our own security. This is the way....

I’m having this same issue and have tried everything I can think of to resolve it. My devices (an iPhone 7 Plus iOS 15.8.3 and an iPad 9 iOS 18.2) do not have the extension referenced in your reply. My settings are correct…I’m signed into both with the same Apple ID, both have iMessages enabled in iCloud. Text message forwarding is enabled. I can access my router’s settings on the iPhone but not the iPad. Following is what I’ve done to try and resolve it:

*Reset network settings on both devices.

*Turned both off, then back on.

*Used the iPhone to access my router’s settings and rebooted the router.

*A hard reset on both devices.

*Reset all settings on both devices.

*A text sent from my iPhone to the iPad did did show on the iPad.

*Erased the iPad and restored to from a backup.

*Had someone else send me a test text and it was received on the iPad.

*Toggled iMessage off, then back on on both.

Any ideas as to what the resolution is to this? Thanks in advance!

There are presently serious security issues (CVE-2024-55591) with Fortinet gear, with active exploits happening.

If that gear is not already patched to current, get there.

https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2024-55591-fortinet-authentication-bypass-zero-day-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild

If that Fortinet VPN client is possibly downgrading secure connections to insecure connections to scan traffic, that too can lead to connection issues.

Check with whomever is maintaining your Fortinet gear, or with Fortinet support, particularly if this HTTP/HTTPS error is arising only with that VPN active.

I’m familiar. This is the ZTNA client connecting to the Forticloud aka FortiSASE. From the message I get back in Safari, it’s because the Forticlient uses the browser during the SAML process and it’s using port 8020 to call back to the Forticloud Web Content Filtering and the “Not Secure Connection Warning” toggle in Safari is blocking it, not warning on it. Instead of a warning I get “Navigation failed because the request was for an HTTP URL with HTTPS-Only enabled”

If I turn the toggle to off, the connection works. I have a ticket open with Fortinet but it seems like a bug with the function of the toggle setting the browser to HTTPS-Only vs a warning. Idk

The error message seems to be in error. Irony. (I got the same error message; I do not have, to my knowledge, any extension named "HTTPS-Only for Safari" installed on my iPad.)

I getting this error while trying to use the Fortinet Forticlient for VPN. It was working prior to this.