That's just as secure. The HTTPS in your location bar means the page you're on is secure. In the case of the site you gave, the form itself is submitting to an HTTPS page, so that data is sent with a request to a secure server, after that new secure connection is established. It's usually more satisfying for people if they can already see the lock icon in their browser when typing it in, but it really doesn't have much to do with it. -N
> I always thought that you needed to be using an https:// page before > sending user names and passwords to log in. My credit union claims > this isn't true, and that since clicking the signon button takes you > to an SSL page, the information typed in is transmitted securely. I > have my doubts. Here's a portion of their claim, from the front page > of http://www.navyfcu.org. I'd welcome opinions. > > "Your experience online is very important to Navy Federal, and the > Account Access Sign On is conveniently located on our Navy Federal > home page. However, you may have recognized that, when you are on the > home page, the familiar security symbols do not appear in your > browser to symbolize that the page is secure. In fact, the home page > itself is informational and not encrypted. Therefore it does not > display the familiar Lock symbol in the bottom righthand corner, > nor does the address line begin with https. However, it is safe to > enter your sign-on information from the home page. Your Access > Number, User ID and Password are not transmitted until you click the > Sign On button. After you click the Sign On button, a secure, > encrypted connection is established between your personal computers > browser and our Navy Federal systems, using Secure Socket Layers > (SSL). After you click Sign On, you can validate that SSL is being > used by seeing that https is displayed at the beginning of the data > in your browsers address line." > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
