Find and replace - HTTP to HTTPS

Feature name

  • Find and replace HTTP to HTTPS

Feature function

  • When running bulk audits such as 'Unsecure Website Report.
  • Changing HTTP to HTTPS is a very long and tedious process at the moment. A user needs to open a single item at a time, click edit, change to HTTPS and save.
  • Having a ‘search and replace’ or an automatic option by Bitwarden to update or add those URLs will make this function quick and useable.

FYI, this screenshot is after I change tens of entries already.

see screenshot.

Good idea - this would be helpful.

In the meantime, it is pretty easy to export your vault as an unencrypted JSON then use a global search and replace to look for http:// and replace with https://.

Hope that suggestion is helpful!

Thanks.
That is a solution for novice/ tech people not for the general public.
The ‘reused password’ tool is also a bit odd. It will show a list of resued passwords but not which items are using those same passwords. so a user needs to run a memory challenge to open and close items to find the ones that are the same. I assume the list bundles the items together (one after the other) but that is not that intuitive.
Thanks.

1 Like

That’s a good idea.
In the process of implementing, I would suggest a small improvement though:
For every automatic replace, it first checks if the HTTPS page exists

Furthermore, it could be a nice feature if adding an HTTP page to your vault, it checks if the HTTPS page is the same and asks you if you would not rather save the HTTPS instead. (but maybe I’m treading into feature creep now)

I agree. However we need to remember that these features are mostly used once during or after initial setup and mostly for users who migrate from another app.
I would recommend a complete ‘on boarding’ feature during import process.
I am not sure how many people actually know or use these extra features. I assume they only know and want to use these extras when comparing between the paid and free versions.

Glad I found this - I was just looking at the over 365 http - all of which I’ll apparently need to go and change… manually. A bit much.

I, too, would like to voice my support for such a feature. My vault report says that I have 59 “unsecure” sites in my vault. This is just how they were formatted when I imported them from LastPass.

Thanks for the feedback all, you can also edit the CSV before importing to search and replace.

If you only recently switched to Bitwarden, it may be worth your while to purge your vault and start over with a new import, after conditioning the LastPass CSV file to add https:// prefixes to the URLs. This can be done fairly easily in Excel — let me know if you would like further instructions.

Fair enough.

How difficult would it be to add checkboxes next to each entry and a ‘Change Selected to Secure URL’ button?

Ease-of-use goes a long way into making the product approachable for everyone.

Thanks @BW_Michael, your feedback has been passed along to the team :+1:

Maybe the easiest solution is to use the settings of your browser. This way the good isn’t restricted to links accessed through BW, but also links in mails, etc…