[ic] Forms action question

interchange-users@icdevgroup.org interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Jul 3 14:38:00 2002


On a side note, I'm not using a secure server, how will using (or not 
using) secure=1 affect anything?  The credit card info will be added 
at WorldPay's secure page (ie, outside my site), that's why it's not 
necessary for me to have a secure server.  Do advise!


On Thursday 04 July 2002 02:08, you wrote:
> 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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