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Secure websites and ISPs

  • 31-01-2005 1:37am
    #1
    JohnK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,780 ✭✭✭


    When using a secure website (https://) what information can your ISP see? Do they just know the domain you’re on or can they see the URL to the exact page? eg: if I go to "https://www.SecureSite.com/JohnK/PrivateStuff.asp?MyCCDetails"
    do my ISP only see a request to "https://www.SecureSite.com" or do they see that I requested the page "/JohnK/PrivateStuff.asp?MyCCDetails"?

    I'm a bit curious as I was on a secure site the other day and noticed that there was what I would consider private information being passed in the URL. Surely if the ISP (or for that matter, anyone else) could see the full URL then its not so secure. Maybe I'm just too paranoid but I haven't been stung yet online and I intend to keep it that way.


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