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Secure Gmail Notifier using hidden preference setting
Authored by: tvl on Mon, Jul 9 2007 at 12:57PM PDT

Actually the writeup isn't correct. If you look at the traffic, they use https for the login, and use some token in the http request for authorization after the fact (same a what reading gmail via http does). The pref just move this later traffic over https (just like using https for gmail reading does).