http://emperor.tidbits.com/webx/tidbits-talk > option.

That's not exactly true. It was always possible to have a complete-
session SSL connection to gmail, you just had to specifically load https://gmail.google.com
  and your connection would be SSL and it would STAY SSL. What gmail
added was an option to your account to force SSL to always be enabled
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