Forum Problem

apart from the speed issue, you might be interested in the following
1. the first time i access the forums via "forum.codeigniter.com" using chrome 91.0.4472.77 (which has a cookie) i get
"Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Size of a request header field exceeds server limit."
the second time round, it works.

2. if i use firefox which doesn't have a cookie, it displays a page "please wait we are checking your browser and a captcha.
having completed the captcha picture choice (correctly I believe!) I'm left looking at the same page ie it hasnt moved on so no indication as to whether I failed the captcha or not. tried this twice and no success.

3. typing forum.codeigniter.com in the browser address brings me to the http page not the https page. i thought it was standard practice to default the htaccess to https
Bill