SSL for a specific page

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10/8/2012 1:06:01 AM
uniquegodwin
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SSL for a specific page

Hello everyone,

I need to use SSL for a specific page on a site. I've seen how to use SSL through the web.config but unfortunately the hosting guys have setup the ssl as a seperate website under the sub domain secure.mydomain.com

 

I have two sites provided by the hosting service provider. One is http://mydomain.com and https://secure.mydomain.com

 

I've copied the mojoportal deployment files on both the wwwroot folders for now.

Is there anyway to redirect that particular page there? But,when they click the home button, they need to come back to the http:// site.

I would appreciate any help

Thanks.

10/8/2012 2:31:24 PM
Joe Audette
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Re: SSL for a specific page

Sorry but that is not going to work, you need the ssl certificate to match the domain used by the site then you can specify that SSL is available in Web.config and you can enable it on specific pages from PageSettings. We don't have a way to make it use a different host name for secure pages. 

Best,

Joe

10/10/2012 1:53:52 AM
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Re: SSL for a specific page

Thank you Joe. For now, I have just linked the pages which need https to a https copy of the mojoportal published site. The others link to the http copy of the published files.

 

Once again, thanks for all your great work.

10/10/2012 4:42:59 AM
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Re: SSL for a specific page

As I am working on a site that will also have some SSL requirements I was wondering why you don't just run the whole site under SSL. Maybe there's a gotcha doing that I haven't come to you yet.

John

 

10/10/2012 9:05:10 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: SSL for a specific page

These days it is best to use SSL for all authenticated requests at minimum because as discussed in the document Use SSL, if you don't use SSL and you (or your users who sign into your site for any reason) use public wifi it is trivial today to steal cookies unless they are protected by SSL. Especially since SSL certificates can be obtained free or at low cost from places like StartSSL.

Best,

Joe

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