Buying tickets online for Alsa

[peregrina2000]

I want to buy a bus ticket from Pamplona to Irun. The Alsa website is simple to use. It shows you schedule and then takes you to movelia to pay. BUT... when I got to the point where I was supposed to put in my credit card number, I saw that the site is not secure.

What kind of a risk do people take when they put their credit card numbers into a non-secure website? This may be a dumb question, and I am assuming I shouldn't do it, but I wonder how they get by with a non-secure website. Of course I may be missing something obvious. Thanks, Laurie

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Laurie, I just conducted an experiment on my desktop browser. I typed in "movelia" in the address line and it brought me to the secure version of the site (with the "https" preface.) I then removed the "s" and the browser was happy to keep me at the http version of the site instead of returning me to the https version as I expected. Alsa may be directing you with a http link and movelia is not bothering to convert to being secure. Try inserting the "s" into your browser and see what happens.

 

[peregrina2000]

Laurie, I just conducted an experiment on my desktop browser. I typed in "movelia" in the address line and it brought me to the secure version of the site (with the "https" preface.) I then removed the "s" and the browser was happy to keep me at the http version of the site instead of returning me to the https version as I expected. Alsa may be directing you with a http link and movelia is not bothering to convert to being secure. Try inserting the "s" into your browser and see what happens.

Sorry, but I can't figure out how to do that. Here is what my screen shows, and I don't know where I would put an "s". Sorry to be dense.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Sorry Laurie, my reply may be too late for you.

My browser shows the protocol used to connect to a system. That is to say if I wanted to connect to www.example.com in the non-secure way the address shows http://www.example.com in the browser's address window. For a secure connection it would be https://www.example.com with the "s" added to the "http". Your browser is not showing the "http://" that I thought it would be. So, to try to get to the secure version of movelia, you could somehow attempt to add "https://" (with the "s" and without the quotes) in front of "www.movelia.es" in the address bar.