[bestbits] IGF registration form completely unencrypted

Alex Comninos alex.comninos at gmail.com
Mon Sep 9 10:13:08 EDT 2013


Hi Bill

Thanks for this swift reply.

The HTTPS form looked familiar, I see that the HTTPS form
(https://comanche.vervehosting.com/~wgig/igf/cms/wks2013/meeting_attendance_registration_2013_IGF.php)
is actually embedded as an iframe in the HTTP page
(http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/igf-2013-registration) - see the
source excerpt below:
...
<div class="contentpane">
<div class="componentheading">
Pre Registration IGF 2013 </div>
<iframe id="blockrandom"
name="iframe"
src="https://comanche.vervehosting.com/~wgig/igf/cms/wks2013/meeting_attendance_registration_2013_IGF.php"
width="100%"
height="2070"
scrolling="auto"
align="top"
frameborder="0"
class="wrapper">
This option will not work correctly. Unfortunately, your browser does
not support inline frames.</iframe>
</div>
...

I am no techie but this should provide SSL encryption nonetheless?

So it was encrypted after all I guess?

Kind regards,
Alex
...
Alex Comninos | doctoral candidate
Department of Geography | Justus Liebig University, Gießen
+49 179 554 7075 | Skype: alexcomninos5
http:// comninos.org | Twitter: @alexcomninos


On 9 September 2013 15:59, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Sep 9, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Alex Comninos <alex.comninos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9 September 2013 15:06, Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org> wrote:
>
> Someone correct me if I am wrong - but this isn't the first time the issue
> of having an insecure registration site has been raised.
>
>
> IGF 2011 had an http registration and I raised it then, 2012 utilised
> HTTPS, I am not sure of the others.
>
>
> Saw this message and shot the secretariat a note, since it's their site.
> Chengetai's response is below.
>
> Cheers
>
> Bill
>
> —————
>
> From: Chengetai Masango <CMASANGO at unog.ch>
> Subject: Re: [bestbits] IGF registration form completely unencrypted
> Date: September 9, 2013 3:37:20 PM GMT+02:00
> To: William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>
> Cc: IGF <IGF at unog.ch>
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> We have an https link
>
>
> https://comanche.vervehosting.com/~wgig/igf/cms/wks2013/meeting_attendance_registration_2013_IGF.php
>
> I will add the link to the form.
>
>
> on the server side its all encrypted so that's fine.


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