Re: HTTPS and URL encoding

From: Thor Kottelin (thor_at_anta.net)
Date: 05/27/04


Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 23:08:52 +0300


Jason LaRue wrote:
>
> So the shorter answer is:
> Your ISP will see https://www.realsite.com/alk63d1goua8hd...

No. Your ISP will see a TCP connection, an SSL/TLS handshake, and encrypted
stuff from there on. They might also see one or more preceding DNS queries,
which might give away the host name, which, in turn and OTOH, would probably
also be easy to determine by doing a reverse lookup.

Thor

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