jdray's Journal: Google Quietly Adds HTTPS Support to GMail

This may be old news, but I just noticed myself and thought I'd report it. I've been using the "New Version" of GMail for a couple of weeks (I hardly notice the difference from the "Old Version"), and happened to notice today that the inbox URL still used "http://", even after all the complaints that they didn't maintain "https://" after login. I decided a quick test was in order, and added the all-important "s" to the protocol indicator. It worked fine. After clicking around some, opening mail, using filters, etc., the "https://" protocol remained. This is great news for those of us who use GMail heavily and want some modicum of security while doing it.

it depends on which url you used

[davester666]

I've noticed for about 6 months or so that if you started at https://mail.google.com/ [google.com], google would stay encrypted, whereas if you went to http://www.gmail.com/ [gmail.com] it would switch to http after the login.

Old news

[onyxruby]

This is old news, I've been doing this at different clients for over a year now.

HTTPS is meaningless if you have a RAT

[Grampaw Willie]

do you have a RAT? ( Remote Administrative Trojan )

I suspect there are more RATS around than the FBI knows about. or that Symantec knows about. Or that anyone save The Devil himself knows about.

until we can put an end to Ms. Windows most promiscuous behavior we are all going to enjoy a Festival of Rats

old News

[ComSon0]

https on gmail has been around for quite a long time. I would suggest getting CustomizeGoogle firefox plugin [mozilla.org] in order to make all those setting (such as https) default.