[ic] Forms action question

Dan Browning interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Jul 3 14:08:00 2002


At 11:02 AM 7/3/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>At 10:48 AM 7/3/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>>Also, why is the form action "[process secure=1]" sometimes used instead 
>>of "[process]"?  Wouldn't the AlwaysSecure pages take care of processing 
>>that page securely?
>
>Yes.
>
>>In other words, if I want the information on the login page to be 
>>processes securely, wouldn't adding login to AwaysSecure take care of that?
>
>Yes.
>
>>Why is secure=1 necessary?
>
>So that if the user calls the page directly (by manually typing the in the 
>URL), or someone else links to it and forgets the https://, then 
>AlwaysSecure will *still* secure the page.

Never mind, what it *really* does, is makes sure a page is secure even if 
you don't use secure=1, and even if you just link to it via [area].  I'll 
go increase my caffeine dosage now...

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