passwords to CGI

[Gerhard Häring]

Will Stuyvesant <hwlgw at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Sending a password to a CGI script with this HTML::
> 
>     <input type=password name=pwd>
> 
> is scary for a user since he sees the pwd appearing
> in the url the browser calls.  This is when you use
> the GET method (I'd rather not use POST, see below).
> Is there a way to encrypt a password before it is
> sent? [...]

It's called HTTPS :-)

Gerhard
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