Answering to this question since 20 years!

Be cool , and get experience on it

Also, for a business, your customers may ask for it in future…

Ensure future

Browsers get more and more strict, and push for HTTPS!

Play with all of funny HTML features

That’s my real reason…

The browser gang already refuses those fun features to HTTP connexions:

• notifications
• service workers
• push API
• storage API
• WebAuth
• many sensors
• etc - …

Source: Mozilla developper:features restricted to secure contexts

Security stuffy

Almost forgot it!

• Encrypt the communication
• Data integrity/can’t be tampered
• Autentication (ensure source)

to some extent…