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Re: Should login pages be protected by SSL?

Subject: Re: Should login pages be protected by SSL?
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:38:08 -0700
Could you explain for me what the insecurity is in REFRESH meta tags?

I have nothing against META REFRESH :) . It is just that using them
for redirecting the users from http:// to https:// is a bad bad
design. The Meta referesh tag can be intercepted, or stopped
completely. Plus, the execution of the META tags depends on the
browser, and not the server.

You would have to make sure that you put REFERESH on all the web pages
for something that can be easily done using one URL rewrite statement
on the webserver.

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Saqib Ali
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