Comment by Carrok
11 years ago
> There's no reason to encrypt your public product catalog pages. Leave them on "example.com" unencrypted.
Of course this is true in theory, but in practice, both clients and customers get 'warm fuzzies' from seeing that green lock in the URL window.
It let's them 'know' that the company they are dealing with is at least somewhat reputable. Whether this is true or not doesn't matter; it is the perception many people have, and it does affect sales numbers in the real world.
i think the realpolitik/"not really caring about users" rationale is more "when someone MITMs the person browsing your company's catalog, it still makes your company look bad". and in my opinion, it should.