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Is there any good solution to this? One suggestion I like is adding a secure padlock style icon for traffic over HTTPS, but that doesn't cover every case.


You have to know more than if the page is HTTPS. I could put a fake facebook page on https://evil.example.com. Normal users could go to it, see the HTTPS icon, see that it looks the same as the facebook login page, and think everything is OK.


They could automatically unhide the URL bar when you start typing into a form.




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