Using Gmail (with Tor) is a bad idea

Anothony Georgeo anogeorgeo at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 19 01:26:07 UTC 2006


Hi Fabian,


--- Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de> wrote:

> Firefox/1.5.0.7 honours an unencrypted redirect
> as response for a https connection request.
> You don't get a warning, but of course if you look
> for it, you can see that the connection is 
> unencrypted.

Thanks for the heads up.  

I may be wise to also report this behaviour to the
Firefox forums or bugzilla.  Maybe the devs. will make
FF provide a warning or an about:config setting to
prevent https to http redirects.

Firefox Help forums:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38

Firefox Bugzilla:
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/bugs

Thanks,
Anogeorgeo

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