So I was viewing reddit and stumbled upon a link leading to another reddit page so I scanned it with virustotal (clear) and clicked on it. It did bring me to a reddit page but I noticed it was http. The weird thing is that the page also had a https version. So now I am confused on whether it was safe I entered a http website and also why there are two identical pages but one with http and another https.
Websites can respond to both HTTPS and HTTP without issue. Over HTTP, the information you send and receive is human-readable if anybody is intercepting the communication. Also, HTTPS certificates allows to verify the ownership of that website to a certain extent (or at least that the website that you’re reaching is not being spoofed)