SSL? shttp?

[Darklings]

Hi,

 

 

I know its suposed to be something with security ~ but what does it do exactly? And is it realy needed? over the whole website? or only part of your website? Does everyone uses it? What's positive/negative about it? When i got a site using it i always get these anoying windowspopups telling me i'm accesing a secure internet page blablabla... (Is SSL = shttp ????) anyway,

 

Any feedback on this is much apreciated.

 

Greets,

Tom

 

 

PS. You are not protected by a secure SSL connection.

[tommy11011]

Hi,

I know its suposed to be something with security ~ but what does it do exactly? And is it realy needed? over the whole website? or only part of your website? Does everyone uses it? What's positive/negative about it? When i got a site using it i always get these anoying windowspopups telling me i'm accesing a secure internet page blablabla... (Is SSL = shttp ????) anyway,

 

Any feedback on this is much apreciated.

 

Greets,

Tom

PS. You are not protected by a secure SSL connection.

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Well, ssl is what will give your customers that warm fuzzy feeling when they type there precious credit card information into their browser.

 

What it does is encrypt that sensitive info between you and them.

 

Is it required? No.

 

But, you may loose customers without it.

 

Personally, I don't believe it that huge of a deal, but considering it costs $100 to do it per year, why risk your sales?

[Darklings]

Thnx Tom for the reply,

 

Well, i think i have this service on my hosted webserver, but do i make my whole shop ssl? Or just a part of it? and what part then?

 

Thnx

Tom

[djs]

Thnx Tom for the reply,

 

Well, i think i have this service on my hosted webserver, but do i make my whole shop ssl? Or just a part of it? and what part then?

 

Thnx

Tom

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You do not want to make your whole site run under ssl. You only need to have the areas that deal with sensitive data, such as customer information and credit card data.

 

If you set up the osc config files, it pretty much deals with knowing which pages to show using ssl and which ones not to bother. Not much to it beyond that.

 

Keep in mind, ssl only encrypts data during transmission. When the information travels from a customers computer to the server, it basically cannot be intercepted easily. I will not buy anything on a site that doesn't know something about how to setup ssl correctly. If they don't take that basic precaution, I wouldn't trust them to care about my information and privacy.

 

Dan