Designs by Calvin Blog » web forms http://designsbycalvin.com/blog Maine based design blog and design info for non-profit organizations. Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:52:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en Is Twitter really submitting my password securely? http://designsbycalvin.com/blog/2008/07/is-twitter-really-submitting-my-password-securely/ http://designsbycalvin.com/blog/2008/07/is-twitter-really-submitting-my-password-securely/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:35:26 +0000 Calvin http://designsbycalvin.com/blog/?p=29 So I was signing up for a Twitter account today and noticed something. After choosing a username and password, I was taken to an invitation page. If you look at this picture it clearly states that my password will be submitted securely.

Twitter Email Submit

How? I noticed in my URL bar there was no https in front of twitter.com, so I pulled up the source code to see if was being passed to an encrypted form. The form url was:

<form action=“/invitations/fetch_contacts” method=“post”>

Can anyone explain how twitter is securely handling my email password if it is being submitted without (or to) a secure https connection?

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