RE: [xml-dev] RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication

["David Lee" <dlee@calldei.com>]

===> Tei sez 
Security conscient people seems to not like this idea, because MITM
attacks are easy with selfsigned certs.
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Of course its not perfect, practically nothing is.
But my point is using SSL with self-signed certificates is more vastly more secure than using HTTP with plain text. But the browsers give a Horrendously scary warning if you use SSL with self-signed certificates and say nothing at all for plain text HTTP (except the lack of a microscopic lock icon).
This leads many (most?) web site developers to just stick to plain HTTP.  Thus decreasing security overall
I simply don't understand that.

-David

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