I was wondering if there a good Wiki page covering best practices for Login 
security for web apps?

One specific question I have is with regards to a login form on the home page 
(non-secure) that submits to the login action.  Because I cannot specify a 
scheme with JSF/JBoss seam in the h:form tag, I cannot force it to submit to an 
https URL.

The best I can do is use the pages.xml to require HTTPS, but that results in 
one non-secure request then a redirect to the secure request.  So its pointless 
in this case.

I reviewed a JIRA (http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-741) where this was 
talked about and it appears that for now the Seam team is holding off 
supporting a scheme attribute in the link/form tags.

It has me thinking there is a security concern with doing this sort of thing 
(submitting a non-secure form to a secure URL) and that perhaps I should just 
avoid having the convenient login box on the home page.

Any feedback is very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Mark

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