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Topic: about security websites

Posted By: webrunner
Subject: about security websites
Date Posted: 15 December 2003 at 6:13pm

Hi there,

I recently started to manage a website with SSL function. I just wonder why some pages' URLs start with http, somes start with https. Can I control it? Are URLs with http secure or not?

In addition, some page return the message "this website contains both secure and nonsecure items...". I know this is caused by some items which can't be encripted. Can I do something with it?

Thanks

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Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 15 December 2003 at 6:49pm

Why are you managing a secure sitge if you know nothing about security?

Security 101
https:// is secure http:// is not

if you have a secure certificate installed on the server for the domain the only difference between secire and non-secure is the s

The message (noted above) is caused by being on a secure URL (https://) and accessing a non secure item via (http://) such as an image. The easiest way to avoid such messages is to use relative paths (/folder/image.gif rather than http://www.domain.com/folder/image.gif )in the HTML code.

To truly manage a secure site you need to know much much more than this, but no one will be able to tell you anything you know. Either buy a good book on SSL and/or read online about it.

Good Luck

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Posted By: webrunner
Date Posted: 15 December 2003 at 9:34pm

Thanks Jamal.

I know http is nonsecure and https is secure. With SSL certificate, I am interested in why some pages appear with https and being secure, some pages do not. So then I can transform some http page into https page. This is my concern.

Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 16 December 2003 at 10:51am

You don't understand what Jamal is trying to tell you. As you say you know https pages are secure (well it means they are using a certificate so they are as secure as the certificate is). If you get a message that the page contains non-secure items like Jamal said the secure page is referencing non-secure items like images.

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