The reason in my case is that I'm making an AJAX request from a page that is secure, and I don't want a browser security warning to be displayed to users.
On Apr 2, 2:31 pm, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Scott Elcomb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> But what if I don't want a man-in-the-middle to know I'm secretly > >> searching for Britney Spears from my cube? > > >> ...oh crap. > > > Welcome to the internet? Despite any attempts to obfuscate, there are > > always way to determine the contents of anything on "the net." > > orly? > > I was being (mostly) sarcastic previously.. I don't see a reason to > have SSL for twitter search.. but now a serious question: are you > saying that you can decrypt SSL session on-the-fly? Should I stop > making purchases with my credit cards online? > > -Chad
