Security Basics: Re: Web mail intercepted! How?

[Andrew Haninger <ahaning () gmail com>]

On 8/4/05, McLain Causey <mclaincausey () yahoo com> wrote:
> That's really all there is to say about it.  I think most services
> use SSL in the authentication phase only, if at all.
FWIW, Gmail always uses SSL for authentication. However, if you visit
it with http://gmail.google.com/, it will use HTTP after you
authenticate. If you use https://gmail.google.com/, it will use HTTPS
after you authenticate.

Kinda cool, but I wish I could make it always forward me to HTTPS.

-Andy