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by wolfgang42 392 days ago
I assume a big reason is cookies, which are specced to be shared across the two versions: an attacker could relatively trivially trigger a request to http://example.com. which would get example.com's cookies, but not the HSTS upgrade that would prevent them from being sent in plaintext.
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That makes sense. What a stupid mess all of this is.