Picasa Web gets secure with HTTPS support

Most of Google's Web apps already supported SSL-encrypted connections. One which didn't was Picasa Web, though that has now changed -- you can now connect to Google's photo sharing site via https://www.picasaweb.com.

As with many other sites, though, not everything displayed on Picasa Web is encrypted. While the home page and upload form are fully encrypted, gallery pages report as being only partially encrypted. Blogger Alex Chitu reports that the culprit is, in fact, an iframe used for displaying ads on the site. That means Internet Explorer users will see mixed content warnings pop up every time they visit a gallery page via HTTPS -- other browsers are a bit more subtle with their alerts.

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