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Security: Form URL Insecure

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Issues Security Form URL Insecure

Form URL Insecure

HTML pages that contain a form with an action attribute URL that is insecure (HTTP).

This means that any data entered into the form is not secure, as it could be viewed in transit.

How to Analyse in the SEO Spider

Use the ‘Security’ tab and ‘Form URL Insecure’ filter to view these URLs.

The HTTP form URL can be viewed by clicking on the URL in the top window and then the ‘URL Details’ lower window tab, which will display the form URL.

These can be exported alongside the pages they are on via ‘Bulk Export > Security > Form URL Insecure’.

What Triggers This Issue

This issue is triggered when a HTML page contains a form with an action attribute URL that is insecure (HTTP). This means that any data entered into the form is not secure. For example:

<html>
 <body>
  <form action="http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/lost-password/">
  ...
  </form>
 </body>
</html>

How To Fix

All URLs contained within forms across a website should be encrypted and therefore need to be HTTPS.

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