Extended Validation Response
I recorded this podcast on Extended Validation shortly after the Computer World article mentioned came out. But it took me a while to get the editing software to run on Vista and then the day after I finished it YouTube did a redesign which made me want to redo it to take advantage of the new features. Here it is at last:
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PayPal (https://www.paypal.com/) has an EV certificate so IE7 displays a green address bar.
However, lots of the content on the PayPal front page comes from a different web site: https://www.paypalobjects.com/. That site uses a non-EV certificate.
So should the browser really show a green address bar?
If you mix https and http content you get the "insecure" display (white address bar, no padlock).
If you mix EV and non-EV https shouldn't the browser indicate the weakest? That is, display a padlock, but not the green background.
Posted by: James Manger | March 2, 2008 9:57 PM