Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a cryptographic protocol that provides communications security over the Internet.
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How do I transition to SSL without affecting PageRank?
Here at Stack Exchange we're working on moving all traffic to SSL. The reason we're not doing logged-in-users only is that one side of the login divide would suffer a redirect from google every time. ...
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Are the different types of SSL certificates a bit of a scam?
I'm looking into getting a few SSL certificates for domains to cover the following:
autodiscover.example.com
remote.example.com
www.example.com
Wildcard certificates are too expensive, so I'm ...
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Is using only https bad in a SEO perspective?
I would like to set up a new business site. I plan to direct www.example.com to example.com and only use that domain. My plan is also to only use https and not http. Does this affect the SEO for the ...
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What are the benefits of a more expensive SSL certificate?
I've been comparing prices of different SSL certificates and found a massive difference in prices between different providers.
If we take ...
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Is there a way of using HTTPS with Amazon's CloudFront CDN and CNAMEs?
We use Amazon's CloudFront CDN with custom CNAMEs hanging under the main domain (static1.example.com). Although we can break this uniform appearance and use the original ...
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Cost of using SSL
I am wondering on the cost of using SSL sitewide. It would be for a standard LAMP site. I know that this will be dependent on the many factors but, can some give me an 'average' or 'guesstimate!'. By ...
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If I need HTTPS / SSL encryption on my web site, does it matter who I get my certificate from?
If I need HTTPS / SSL encryption on my web site, does it matter who I get my certificate from? Are some SSL certificate vendors better than others? If so, why?
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Is unique IP address a must for SSL?
The shared hosting company told me that if I buy an IP address then it will be applicable for the addon domains too. What does it mean? Then the SSL certificate won't work since there will be more ...
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Choosing which domain to secure
We've got a website that is served on both www.example.com and just example.com - we've never done any sort of forcing users from one domain to the other, so if they land on example.com then that's ...
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HTTPS for entire site
I'm working on a fairly standard web site with public content plus personal/customized content for registered users. I know I need to use HTTPS when users are logging in or sending credit card ...
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SSL certificate provider
I need a SSL certificate for a new site I'm building and I have to choose a SSL provider. What to look for when choosing and what's your experience dealing with them?
Thanks!
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Is it really a security problem to have non secure assets on an ssl page?
My understanding is that this is just an example of being overly cautious, but if my checkout form contains an unsecure asset on it, that doesn't endanger anybody's credit card numbers from being ...
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IIS 7 Require SSL automatically redirect to https://
I've configured IIS 7 to require SSL. I'm wondering if I can automatically redirect non-ssl requests to be encrypted.
For example, if a user types in http://domain.com, can IIS redirect the request ...
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Using wildcard certificates for multi-server deployment
Currently we are deploying a beta API for our services and we want that all request/responses from the API works over https. I'm confused about using wildcard certificates for both api and www urls. ...
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Can I use the same SSL cert for HTTPS and FTPS
I am looking to get an extended SSL certificate for a server that is handling one of my subdomains. Can I use the same certificate for https://sub.example.com and ftps://sub.example.com, assuming that ...
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How to serve static content without https in a secure site?
I want to serve static content from my site but my site is https-only. My static http server only serve http content (non https) but many IE users are complaining about being unable to log into.
What ...
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Why is godaddy HTTPS/SSL certification so much cheaper than digicert, thawte, and verisign?
I am a novice on HTTPS/SSL but GoDaddy charges $12.99 and Digicert, thawte, and Verisign charge $100-1000+ for SSL certificates.
I must be missing something on the quality of the encryption or ...
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Using HTTPS on the entire sites 2011 and beyond
I know this has been asked before, but I am curious what all of you guys think, with the advent of programs like firesheep, released only 6 months ago. Is it a good idea to use https on an entire ...
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Does SSL really matter for most websites?
I've been pretty paranoid about learning to "do security right" for this site I'm building (first non-trivial site I've made), and I've noticed something that bothers me: SSL.
I've read plenty of ...
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What do I need to do to enable my site to accept credit cards?
I want to store my customers' credit card information in my database so that they can quickly check out again without having to re-enter their info. What do I need to know about security/https/etc to ...
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free SSL certificates?
how comes that some SSL certificates are free ? What does that mean ? Are they secure or not ?
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Identify “non-secure” content IE warns about
As many know, if you serve a page over https and the content loads resources (images, stylesheets, js, SWF objects, etc) over http, older versions of Internet Explorer will show the user a warning ...
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Google indexes my site as https as opposed to the correct http
Over the last month, the home page of my website hosted on Media Temple's grid server and has been appearing in google listings as an https website. I have never requested or needed the extra ...
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Looking for SSL certificates (first time)
I need to buy SSL certificates and it is the first time.
1) My option would be the "cheapest ones". What am I going to risk, what kind of service quality I'm going to lose if I buy the cheapest ? Are ...
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Does https site needs extra configuration after installation of SSL certificate?
I recently developed an incentive website for a European bank, and one of the requirements was SSL - the website displays some personal customer data (though no financial or really sensitive data).
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When redirecting from http to https in a shop site, which status code should I use?
On a shop website, when "Pay now" is clicked we perform a header redirection to the same URL, just an SSL secured https version.
In such a common scenario, should we use a permanent (301), a ...
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SSL Warranty - Meaningless?
Lots of SSL seem to come with a warranty:
Extended Validation, Green Address Bar
40-bit minimum to 256-bit encryption
USD $100,000 warranty
VeriSign Trust™ Seal and services
Has anyone in history ...
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Using wildcard certificates
Can I buy a wildcard certificate to use the same SSL certificate on multiple domains? For example, www.example.com, www.example.org and www.example.net (on different hosting services)?
If I can,
Is ...
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Should we get an EV Certificate?
Our regular SSL provider is offering EV certificates for under $US200, and it just so happens that the certificate for our B2B e-commerce site is expiring in a month (which should give us enough time ...
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Why would you use document.location.protocol instead of plain // prefixed urls?
For instance Google Analytics uses document.location.protocol in the boilerplate for tracking:
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', ...
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Force SSL and WWW in .htaccess
I'm looking for a way to force SSL and WWW.
I've been able to force both separately but together I keep running into redirection issues. The following code works when handling a URL in this format: ...
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Thawte/GeoTrust/VeriSign 2048 Bit Root migration and Intermediate SSL Certificates
Thawte, GeoTrust, VeriSign and other Certificate Authorities are currently in the process of changing from a 1024 bit MD5 based root certificate to a 2048 bit SHA-1 based root to "keep in line with ...
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How to prevent access to website without SSL connection?
I have a website that has an SSL certificate installed, so that if I access the website using https instead of http I will be able to connect using a secure connection.
However, I have noticed that I ...
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HTTPS best practices for SEO and usability
Consider a page, http://example.com, which can be viewed both publicly and when a user authenticates. Now suppose you enable HTTPS for every page when a user logs into your website, but only when they ...
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https (SSL) instead of http for mobile users
I am building myself a new website, out of privacy and security concerns I am contemplating trying to make it https only.
It will be mobile-friendly using media queries but I am concerned--especially ...
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Ad service that supports ssl (secure publishing)
Is there an add service like adsense that supports SSL ads? I wish to put ads on a secured (https) pages but Google Adsense doesn't support it. I know Adbrite works for text based SSL ads but I ...
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2 SSL certificates?
I just spend ages moving all static content to a cookiless domain to help performance, it seems to work great! It got me thinking though, when I install SSL on my main site, am I also going to have ...
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Can I expect browsers to cache static content served over SSL encryption?
With all the talk about FireSheep I am thinking of switching my web applications to use full https accross the entire site. However, I am concerned about caching. I use a lot of JavaScript, CSS files, ...
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SSL and green address bar
I am new to SSL so can someone explain why my address bar turns green when I'm on certain sites beginning with https:// and sometimes it doesn't even though I know the site has SSL? Maybe these two ...
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What makes a SSL certificate “signed”?
When you buy a SSL certificate from Comodo, it is signed by Comodo and therefore trusted. How is it signed though? Why can't anyone sign the certificate pretending to be Comodo?
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Google Analytics: How can I track between http:// and https:// profiles for a domain?
I'm trying to set up tracking on a project that I'm working on.
The main site is at http://www.example.com/
The order page is at https://www.example.com/index.php
Currently they have two ...
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How to use the private and public keys?
I am new to ssl certificates, i wanted to learn about ssl certificates, and I generated private and public keys myself while logged into cpanel, I wonder how to use those and generate a secured ...
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Google suddenly only indexes https and not http
So all of a sudden, searches for our site "radiotuna" give out the result as an HTTPS link.
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HTTP for one part of the site, HTTPS for other
We have a site which is HTTP, but it has an admin part. How can we secure the admin part with HTTPS?
For example, WordPress (which I know) is located at http://foo.com, but we want to have ...
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SSL versus EV SSL
As I understand it, SSL certificates verify the connection between the host and the browser, preventing MITM attacks. Is it true that EV SSL verifies the host itself, thus preventing (in theory) ...
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running multiple name-based web applications on a single ip address with SSL
I'm working on web projects.
My scenario is I have two web applications running on one single web server (Apache).
Due to my company policy, they ask me to put both of them on SSL (Port #443), no ...
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How to install mod_ssl for Apache
I have installed Apache httpd a while ago and have recently come back to it to try setup SSL and get it serving several different tomcat servers.
At the moment I have two completely separate tomcat ...
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2048 bit SSL overhead [closed]
Can you guys help me learn some ssl networking basics plz?
What is a SSL transaction (a full handshake?)
Why do people think 2k ssl will melt netscalers (ssl trans/sec exceed
netscaler max ssl ...
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Redirect from SSL HTTPS to HTTP (NO SSL)
Many of my visitors have bookmarked my site already with https://mydomain.com. Under the bad advice of a programmer I have put my whole site (Joomla) using SSL.
I do not sell anything or provide any ...
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Properly force SSL with .htaccess, no double authentication
I'm trying to force SSL with .htaccess on a shared host. This means there I only have access to .htaccess and not the vhosts config. I know you can put a rule in the VirtualHost config file to force ...
