[thelist] SSL

Anthony Baratta Anthony at Baratta.com
Tue Mar 27 15:25:05 CST 2001


At 12:40 PM 3/27/2001, you wrote:
> >
> > >are you specifying https:// in the URL?
> >
> > If I do specify https it shows the padlock, but it didn't
> > seem like that's
> > how it should work since someone could take the 's' out and render in
> > insecure. I've seen it done that if you take the 's' out you get a 404
>
>what's happening is http:// equals port 80 and https:// equals port 443.
>What ya gotta do is remove access to port 80, and yer set.
>
>You've got everything set up right, now you cut off the access you don't
>want =)

Emma...

Another thing, you can point the SSL pages to a differnet root directory. 
This would prevent any user from seeing the pages non-secured. That's how I 
setup my Apache SSL services.



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