[Newbies] Are the arguments of a URL encrypted when you make an HTTPS connection?

[Lukas Renggli]

> Anyway, after recovering form the shock of my idea, I suddenly realised it
> would be completely useless if the URL is transmitted in plain text.  Does
> anyone know when the encryption in an SSL session actually kicks in?  And is
> there anything I can set on WAKom to ensure that the URL is protected?

SSL kicks in before the URL in, see for example
<http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/758002.html>.

WAKom does not come with SSL support, but it can be easily done using
Apache, Squid, ...

Cheers,
Lukas

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