After the iPhone 3G activation debacle, MobileMe is officially functional. I subscribed to the one month trial but something bugs me: HTTPS is not supported. All services (e.g., calendar, mail, contacts) are accessed through plain (unsecured) HTTP, which is a deal breaker for me.
However, during the guided tour video of MobileMe, you can observe that Firefox on Windows Vista uses HTTPS whereas Safari on Mac OS uses plain HTTP. I tried on Windows XP and it’s not working either.
Weird.
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Have you payed or are you on the free trial? If you go in your settings, it’s in https so they can provide it currently. And as you said we see it on the video so I’m wondering if it’s not only once you’ve payed and not the trial. That would be weird but it might explain the missing “s”.
Patrick14 July 08 at 8:09 am
I’m on the free trial. I also noticed that the settings section is secure.
If the paid version of the service support HTTPS, there is no mention about it.
Frederic Brunel14 July 08 at 10:51 am
Just noticed the same thing – there is no https support for mail, calendar, address book. A show stopper. At least they protect the account information, but unless they also protect the rest of the site it’s definitely a no-go.
Let’s hope and wait, right now it’s not only https what they have to fix!
Mike
PS: also a trial account, but I doubt there is any difference for paid accounts.
Mike14 July 08 at 12:22 pm
I don’t think neither there is a different with paid accounts. I guess HTTPS will be supported at some point.
Frederic Brunel14 July 08 at 6:21 pm
Hi Frederic, I received a response from the MobileMe Support – they explained in a long note that they assume it’s secure because the password and all account info is always protected. They don’t care about also encrypting mail, calendar or idisk transfers. So I don’t think they’ll enable it except there is a lot of pressure. Which I doubt – a lot of users of MobileMe even don’t know what encryption is or what can happen….
Mike
Mike16 July 08 at 1:43 am
Hi Mike, thans for asking the support. I’m really surprised of the answer and dissapointed. It’s too bad but I won’t use it.
Frederic Brunel16 July 08 at 6:56 pm
Yeah, same here. A no-go for now, let’s see what happens in the next 60 days… then the trial is over and I’ll switch back to iTunes Calendar Syncing.
Mike18 July 08 at 6:20 am
Talking about syncing, I tried MobileMe with an iPhone 3G and only mails are pushed.
Calendars and contacts are synced by polling, so no real advantage over classic solutions.
Frederic Brunel22 July 08 at 8:26 am
Talking about syncing, I tried MobileMe with an iPhone 3G and only mails are pushed.
Calendars and contacts are synced by polling, so no real advantage over classic solutions.
Frederic Brunel22 July 08 at 8:26 am
There is no https support for mail, calendar, address book. A show stopper. At least they protect the account information, but unless they also protect the rest of the site it's definitely a no-go.
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