There's a realistic risk that your computer will get infected, hacked, taken over, etc. The reason for this is that Yosemite no longer receives security updates, and is thus a target for explotation. I know that you demand that the we do not answer this, but for the sake of other's that might read this, I must answer that the correct way to proceed is to upgrade.
The best way to proceed here is to upgrade your system - operating system and browser: Common examples of "browser within browser" are Browserling and BrowserStack - although you would have to test yourself if those can actually by accessed with your specific setup as they typically assume usage by https. Technically the connection between that second browser and the site in question would be https, but you would access the result of that interaction though a http connection. it is possible to access a site via http that will essentially run a browser on a remote server whose user interface is displayed and operated within your browser. However, that would still leave your computer exposed due to the lack of operating system updates.Ī third option is to use a browser within a browser.
You could use a different browser that has updated TLS functionality and CA repository so that you get https access working again for your sites.
In addition some sites might indicate to browsers that they only permit https queries in the future using the HSTS header - this is a practice that is becoming more and more common, and is also most often a good security practice. This means that Safari (and other browsers) will automatically switch to https. This is very common and often a good security practice. However, the server has a major say here, and they could actively be redirecting users to https using HTTP redirects. In terms of handling your practical problem, you just have to enter " manually in the address bar in Safari in order to use http instead of https. (MS turned off the authentication servers so re-installs won't validate). Upgrading an OS is not an option as that will break MS-Office. Is there a setting to tell Safari "don't worry about the security" or "just use HTTP"? I hate to turn it off altogether but that's an option. 88 won't read the sites either, and says the site is not secure to provide my precious financial information, and so will not give me any path to browse it. In the last week the number of such sites has increased exponentially. However, there are issues with the website's certificate or other security glitches, where the Safari balks and saysĬannot open the page http S://because Safari cannot establish a secure connection to the server "The HTTP connection would have been fine. Safari refuses to use "HTTP" because "HTTPS" exists. "HTTP" is perfectly appropriate for this browsing. a "brochure" website that only has public info). I'm not handling financial information or even logging into the site, I'm just literally browsing (e.g. I surf a lot of web sites merely informationally. An answer which says only that is not an answer to this question. I'm running Safari 10.1.2 (OS X Yosemite most updated).