SSL and the Browser Padlock
I'm a little confused about the website www.united-domains.de where I wanted to order a domain. The problem is I don't get the golden padlock at the bottom of my browser when I visit that site and especially also on the "order form" where they want me to give credit card details.
The strange thing is they have a "Thawte secure" logo on that page and Thawte confirmed that united-domains.de does own a Thawte SSL cert.
The guy from the Thawte support chat told me that for him the pages appeared to be secure, even the home page... Could any of you try to visit www.united-domains.de and tell me if for you that page appears to be secure or not?
The guy from united-domains.de support told me the golden padlock would only show up on the following page, after the sensible data has been submitted. That seems a pretty stupid statement, the purpose of this padlock symbol is to allow users to check security before they submit sensible data, isn't it...
It's strange, I tried it with IE6, NS4.5 and NS4.7 and on two different machines at different locations, and never could see a secure page at united-domains.de, but both UD and Thawte tell me these pages ARE secure... Hmmm...
