On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Jack
<quiet_celt@yahoo.com> wrote:
--- On Thu, 10/7/10, Billy Crook <billycrook> wrote:
> Subject: Re: Bank websites
> Cc: "KCLUG" <kclug@kclug.org>
> Date: Thursday, October 7, 2010, 1:44 PM
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 14:56, Justin
> wrote:
>
> >>When was the last time you received a document
> containing sensitive information that was encrypted? Now
> how many of those
> >>documents came through the USPS unencrypted? I
> have more confidence in the reliability and secrecy of email
> than USPS mail.
> > I've received lots of documents via HTTPS that were
> encrypted.
>
> No. You have not. You can not receive documents
> over HTTPS.
Yes you can! It's called push technology or HTTP push. Just because most documents are pull doesn't mean you can't push documents. I do it all the time, in a document generation web service I wrote for a client. That's also part of what makes Ajax work. Any CGI service can do it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_technology
I regularly receive documents in email through a a secure HTTPS webmail interface. I haven't analyzed the code to say whether it uses push or pull technology. So can't speak to that application. But it is certainly possible. But it probably is using polling to make a pull.
HTML5 has added more features to the push technology.
Jack