[Pdweb] please put the dev docs back

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Wed Sep 27 17:12:17 CEST 2006


On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> that was the point: people are automatically redirected to 
> https://<whatever> when (before) they log into the portal, in order to 
> not transmit passwords in plain-text. when they now edit their page, 
> they often just copy the link from the linkbar (which now is on https). 
> anonymous (http) visitors of the website, now get loads of https-links 
> (and the poor server's load jumps up)

Why not use challenge-response authentication over plain http? That's 
secure enough, yes?

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