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Re:Chrome 19 doesn't respect basic auth details embedded in ... by chris_wot on Thursday April 19, 2012 @02:10AM (#3861654)
RFC 2818 says the following:

   Conceptually, HTTP/TLS is very simple. Simply use HTTP over TLS
   precisely as you would use HTTP over TCP.
TLS is meant to be transparent to the higher level protocol - in other words, independent of HTTP. The headers should be encrypted also.

For a long time, I also believed that the URL would not be encrypted (e.g. GET /example/url.htm), but as it's running as a transparent connection then this is also encrypted. I had to check this to see if GET requests with session IDs would be vulnerable over the wire - I was quite relieved when I realised my assumptions were wrong! Also meant I had to read a few specs :-)

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