[Newbies] Are the arguments of a URL encrypted when you make an
HTTPS connection?
Lukas Renggli
renggli at gmail.com
Sat Mar 14 20:27:36 UTC 2009
> 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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