Secure Ajax from Non-Secure Pages

Secure Ajax from Non-Secure Pages(viget.com)

1 points by crnixon 15 years ago | 1 comment

If a form is going to submit data over a secure channel, the page containing the form should be retrieved over a secure channel also. Otherwise what’s to stop somebody intercepting and modifying the pages HTML so that the form submits the data in plain text elsewhere?

mike-cardwell 15 years ago |

If a form is going to submit data over a secure channel, the page containing the form should be retrieved over a secure channel also. Otherwise what’s to stop somebody intercepting and modifying the pages HTML so that the form submits the data in plain text elsewhere?