No, you didn't miss something.  Looks like I have to make the "Edit Account"
page secure to protect any changing of passwords, etc, then switch back.

The idea was to protect a user's password only.  Once logged on, that
password is no longer required.

I do understand that someone could snoop the session id though.

One of the primary reasons I am going along this path is due to performance
concerns.  Non-SSL performance is much better then SSL.

Thanks for the comment.

Michael Dalton

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-----Original Message-----
From: Holger Dewes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:20 AM
To: 'Jetspeed Users List'
Subject: RE: Using SSL (e.g. https:) with Jetspeed and IE annoyances




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dalton-1, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 4:05 PM
> To: 'Jetspeed Users List'
> Cc: Dalton-1, Michael; Reinhart-1, Lois; Solanky, Smita; 
> Twadell, Daniel M
> Subject: RE: Using SSL (e.g. https:) with Jetspeed and IE annoyances
> 
> 
> Yup, that did the trick.  My custom login class needed to be 
> in a ../modules/actions/ directory.  Don't know why, but at 
> least it works.  Very strange.
> 
> Now my users can log in using SSL and have the portal 
> automatically switch back to non-SSL -- which should improve 
> performance overall.
> 

Hello,

just out of curiosity: why bother with SSL in the first place if you
switch back to non-SSL after login? Its hardly more secure, because the
session ID can easily be retrieved from an unsecure connection. And as
soon as a user changes his password, the new password can be read by a
third person as well. Or am I missing something?

Cheers

-- 
Holger Dewes


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