Meaning of Network Transmission warning dialog ?

[Thiago Macieira]

Yuri Baranov wrote:
>After filling the fields and clicking submit, I got warning dialog
>from the browser (screenshot attached),

>The developer postulates, that the data from the form on the payment
>site is always posted encrypted, but the http response may come back
>unencrypted. This does not break any security, according to him,
>because the response contains no sensitive information - only "payment
>accepted" or "payment rejected".

The warning is only shown if Konqueror received the form HTML in SSL mode 
(encrypted) but is about to send the form data back to the server without 
SSL encryption.

So, yes, your credit card number was sent unencrypted across the Internet.

Without more details on the web form in question, I can't give you more 
information.

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