#3602 HIGH First D: Need to know if you are on a secure webpage

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#3602: Need to know if you are on a secure webpage
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  Reporter:  kimquirk          |       Owner:  Eben                  
      Type:  task              |      Status:  new                   
  Priority:  high              |   Milestone:  First Deployment, V1.0
 Component:  interface-design  |     Version:                        
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:                        
  Verified:  0                 |  
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Changes (by Eben):

 * cc: erikos, benzea (added)


Comment:

 I have an icon for this which I'll attach, but I'm not sure where it
 belongs in the interface.  I'd rather not leave a hole in the toolbar for
 this icon to appear in on various occasions.  Actually, it seems like the
 most intuitive place for it is adjacent to the URL, since the URL is the
 identity of the site which is certified and secure.  Perhaps we can embed
 it within the entry.  I'd prefer not to do so on the right, because we
 intend to modify entries to have accept/cancel buttons on the right.  The
 left is currently available, but that's also the location that the favicon
 usually appears.

 We can't really overwrite the favicon with the lock icon when the page is
 secure, because a page could impersonate a secure one by assigning it a
 lock ''as'' its favicon.  We could place the lock there in addition to the
 favicon, but we don't have support for embedding multiple icons at
 present. (Of course, for that same reason we can't have accept/cancel
 buttons yet).

 Ben, could you give some input on the potential for packing more icons in
 the entries, both left and right, and how hard it would be to pack these
 dynamically for secure sites?

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