said by Steve 
:said by jefe :Doesn't that have the effect of sending your userid and password in plain text?
No way: it's not the fetch of the main page that determines this, but the action upon submit, and everybody still encrypts the important stuff.
It's very expensive to encrypt large amounts of home-page traffic that doesn't really require it, and doing this just so ignorant people feel better just ends up imposting costs on everybody for no good purpose (hmmm, that sounds just like our war on terrorism).
Steve
