> 1) Logging in.  The login action should be https so username and password are 
> encrypted, but once i pass the login, the first page the user sees does not 
> need to be secure, hence switching from https to http

And that's exactly when your site stops being secure, and the user session can 
be hijacked, and your site is compromised.  Facebook does login over https, yet 
the sessions can be hijacked. That's why they're rolling out the change...

Please *do* seriously consider using https all the way after the user has 
logged in. You have very few real reasons why you shouldn't - https is very 
cheap these days with SSL-terminating loadbalancers and plenty-of-CPU power for 
decryption anyway. You're otherwise creating a fairly easy-to-exploit security 
hole in your system... (unless, of course, you can ensure that nobody ever uses 
your system over WiFi.)

/Janne


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