[imp] https for login

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck@horde.org
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:22:25 -0500


Quoting Dominique Dalponte <dominique.dalponte@utbm.fr>:

> perhaps it slow but if you wan't to suppress ssl after login, it is not
> usefull to have ssl during login
> 
> your password will be sniffing after the logging !

On what information do you pass this assertion?

Once you log in, your password is stored in your session - which is on the 
server - and is never sent in between the webserver and browser. It of 
course is sent to the IMAP server, but SSL on the browser/webserver leg 
won't help that in any case.

-chuck

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