Reddit seems to send a clear text password but Digg and a few others
seem to be hashing on the client using a token salt before sending.
I'm too cheap to pay for a unique IP and SSL so I will try that
first.

Question: Does session.secure do anything useful when *not* running
over https?

On Sep 29, 4:50 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
> I did not notice and that is bad.
>
> If your app uses authentication you should have
>
>      session.secure()
>
> and use HTTPS. The latter line will not accept sessions cookies
> without HTTPS.
>
> Massimo
>
> On Sep 29, 4:28 pm, "mr.freeze" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > What are sites like reddit.com doing to secure their logins?
> > Anything?  The login request goes over http according to firebug.  I'm
> > just wondering if my wiki site needs https for login or http is
> > acceptable or if there is another trick I can use.
>
> > Thanks!
> > Nathan
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