# WOO plain text **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 22, 2006, 7:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/woo-plain-text/16287 "2006-08-22T07:30:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![ILCisDEAD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a87d85/32.png) [@ILCisDEAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILCisDEAD)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 2:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/woo-plain-text/16287/4 "2006-08-22T14:58:14Z")
> [@article](#): > > CASE #7: [AMAZON.COM](http://AMAZON.COM)? WHAT? > > Yes, Amazon will still let you login with clear-text. Seriously. I’m not making this up. > > Here’s a typical POST: > POST [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/flex-sign-in-done/NUMBER](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/flex-sign-in-done/NUMBER) HTTP/1.0 > Accept: _/_ > Referer: [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/flex-sign-in/ref=BLAHBLAH?\_encoding=UTF8](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/flex-sign-in/ref=BLAHBLAH?%5Fencoding=UTF8) > &response=wheres-my-stuff&method=POST&opt=a > Accept-Language: en-us > Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded > Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive > User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1) > Host: [www.amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com) > Content-Length: 198 > Pragma: no-cache > Cookie: > > \_encoding=UTF8&method=POST&opt=a&page=help/ya-sign-in-secure.html&response=wheres-my-stuff > &email=myemail@pantsflappinginthewind.com&action=sign-in&next-page=help/ya-register-secure.html > &password=MY\_PASSWORD\_FLAPPING\_IN\_THE\_WIND&x=138&y=9 > Content-type: text/plain i was rather shocked at that one… i mean at least md5 it! whats worse is that most of the people on this forum don’t know what plain text means?!@! and here i am telnetting into unix… i’m such a hypocrit --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/woo-plain-text/16287)._