mitch's meanderings» gmail http://mitchcontla.com life, technology, running; links, photos, and videos Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:32:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Tip of the Day: Secure Your Gmail http://mitchcontla.com/2007/03/21/tip-of-the-day-secure-your-gmail/ http://mitchcontla.com/2007/03/21/tip-of-the-day-secure-your-gmail/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:12:05 +0000 mitch http://mitch.contlafamily.com/2007/03/21/tip-of-the-day-secure-your-gmail/ From the “Why Didn’t I Think of That” department: GMailSecure has got to be one of the most elegantly simple, yet useful Greasemonkey scripts ever.

When I say simple, I mean one line of code:

location.href = location.href.replace(/^http:/, 'https:');

This script ensures your Gmail session using Firefox takes place over a secure HTTP connection providing a reasonable amount of protection from eavesdropping and other shenanigans. Add other domains for which both a http and https URI exist and Firefox will always use https. For example, I added:

http://www.google.com/calendar/*

http://docs.google.com/


http://docs.google.com/*

Now all Google Calendar and Google Docs & Spreadsheets sessions are secure. But don’t stop there, any domain will work… not just the Google properties.

Download links: Greasemonkey (install this first), GMailSecure

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Funny, I was just thinking I need to switch to Gmail exclusively. Hmmm.

UPDATE: As quick as I saved this post, Gmail came back online (2:38pm PDT). It wasn’t just me, posts in the Gmail-Users Group seem to confirm the outage.

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