[ale] Do Google searches over SSL

[jimpop at gmail.com (Jim Popovitch)]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 14:13, Mike Harrison <meuon at geeklabs.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 May 2010, krwatson at cc.gatech.edu wrote:
>
>> Do Google searches over SSL
>> https://www.google.com/
>
> Good for keeping the people in the middle between you and google
> from sniffing your traffic.

Not exactly.   Google search results return the query (q=) in the URL
(HTTP GET).   So anyone along the way can still see what you are
searching for.

-Jim P.