Why not make your calling page https also?

On Jul 9, 12:02 pm, Scott <sc...@appletree.com> wrote:
> hmm... that sucks...  This is for allowing my members to enter
> credentials and it's important to be able to allow this on an http
> page.  What's the best way to accomplish this?  Don't other sites
> allow javascript logins in http pages where the credentials are not
> sent in cleartext?
>
> Is there a great library for encrypting the data in javascript with a
> public key and then decrypting the data with a private key on the
> server?
>
> On Jul 9, 1:01 pm, Michael Lawson <mjlaw...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Scott,
>
> > unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your POV), same domain policy
> > applies to the whole domain, including 
> > protocol.http://www.mysite.commakinga request tohttps://www.mysite.com is 
> > not
> > valid
>
> > cheers
>
> > Michael Lawson
> > Development Lead, Global Solutions, ibm.com
> > Phone:  1-276-206-8393
> > E-mail:  mjlaw...@us.ibm.com
>
> > 'Examine my teachings critically, as a gold assayer would test gold. If you
> > find they make sense, conform to your experience, and don't harm yourself
> > or others, only then should you accept them.'
>
> >   From:       Scott <sc...@appletree.com>                                   
> >                                                    
>
> >   To:         "jQuery (English)" <jquery-en@googlegroups.com>               
> >                                                    
>
> >   Date:       07/09/2009 03:56 PM                                           
> >                                                    
>
> >   Subject:    [jQuery] $.get ajax call on http page to https on same domain 
> >                                                    
>
> > I'm successfully able to make jQuery $.get ajax calls, everything
> > works great.  But some ajax calls pass credentials, so I need those
> > calls to be secure.  I simply try $.get("https://localhost/ajax.xml";,
> > etc...); instead of http.  But now it's not working, instead of an
> > http get call, I see in firebug an http OPTIONS request is sent to the
> > server and without the cookies.  So my tomcat server returns a
> > redirect to my login page (as it doesn't see a session id in the
> > cookie or url) and the ajax call fails..
>
> > What's going on?  Why doesn't it simply issue the exact same get
> > request jQuery does when the destination url is http?  How can I make
> > this work?
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