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October 17, 2014
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Is long Adobe.com Login link safe?

  • October 17, 2014
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Sorry, I don't know what "community" to put this in, as it's about Adobe's website, not software.

I'll go ahead and paste here. FYI, I cleaned out cache and history, then open new website window for adobe.com, then click on LOGIN in upper right and noted the following URL in addr bar, and wonder if it's safe, and why it's so long?


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    Correct answer Dave Merchant

    It's perfectly OK - due to the way the AdobeID single-sign-in operates, there's a bunch of parameters that are passed via HTTP GET instead of cookies or POST data, so the URI tends to be huge.

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    Dave MerchantCorrect answer
    Legend
    October 18, 2014

    It's perfectly OK - due to the way the AdobeID single-sign-in operates, there's a bunch of parameters that are passed via HTTP GET instead of cookies or POST data, so the URI tends to be huge.

    pwillener
    pwillener
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    October 18, 2014

    As long as the domain name is adobe.com I would assume that it's save.

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    StrgzrAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    October 18, 2014

    Sorry, but that doesn't help what I want to know. I want to know why login isn't simple adobe.com addr, why all that extra is added and what it means.

    pwillener
    pwillener
    Legend
    October 18, 2014

    Basically these parameters tell the login procedure where to redirect after a successful sign in.

    But honestly I have never seen this, as I am always automatically signed in when going to http://www.adobe.com/

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