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by aritraghosh007 3862 days ago
Its quite a co-incidence that I scouted for an answer for this today while I was setting up SSL for my gh-pages. As already pointed out by some comments, its not quite as simple as we think it is to have GitHub extend SSL for its pages. Its for the same reason that Tumblr doesn't allow SSL support for custom domain either. IMHO, CloudFlare is probably the simplest workaround to get SSL enabled for your gh-pages. Link on how to https://me.net.nz/blog/github-pages-secure-with-cloudflare/