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Link with unencrypted protocol

Reports the links that use unencrypted protocols (such as HTTP), which can expose your data to man-in-the-middle attacks. These attacks are dangerous in general and may be especially harmful for artifact repositories. Use protocols with encryption, such as HTTPS, instead.

See HTTPS: Difference from HTTP (wikipedia.org).

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

HttpUrlsUsage
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Security

Inspection ID: HttpUrlsUsage

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Link with unencrypted protocol inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Ignore comments

Option ID:

ignoreComments

Default value:

Selected
Ignore URLs with no top-level domain

Option ID:

withTldOnly

Default value:

Selected
Ignore IP addresses

Option ID:

ignoreIpAddresses

Default value:

Selected
Ignored URLs

Option ID:

ignoredUrls

Default value:

[http://localhost, http://127.0.0.1, http://0.0.0.0, http://www.w3.org/, http://json-schema.org/draft, http://java.sun.com/, http://xmlns.jcp.org/, http://javafx.com/javafx/, http://javafx.com/fxml, http://maven.apache.org/xsd/, http://maven.apache.org/POM/, http://www.springframework.org/schema/, http://www.springframework.org/tags, http://www.springframework.org/security/tags, http://www.thymeleaf.org, http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/schema/, http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/, http://www.ibm.com/webservices/xsd, http://activemq.apache.org/schema/, http://schema.cloudfoundry.org/spring/, http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/, http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/, http://primefaces.org/ui, http://tiles.apache.org/]

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection HttpUrlsUsage

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025