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domains,web design,web hosting  SECURITY : Using SSL (a practical guide)

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Clients with Signature (Standard, Pro, Pro Plus), Virtual or Dedicated Servers can access all of the web content on their Server (documents, images, scripts, etc) via SSL by using the https:// prefix rather than the http:// prefix.

For example, your secure web page or form can be accessed like this:

https://YOUR-DOMAIN.NAME/filename.html

You can send the data collected by a form on your web site to a CGI script via SSL by including something like this in form page HTML:

<form method="POST" action="https://YOUR-DOMAIN.NAME/cgi-bin/script.cgi">

Be sure that you do not reference embedded content (such as images, etc) insecurely by using the http:// prefix within a page referenced by https://YOUR-DOMAIN.NAME/filename.html. Examples:-

This is not correct:-

<img src="http://YOUR-DOMAIN.NAME/image.gif">

This is correct:-

<img src="https://YOUR-DOMAIN.NAME/image.gif">

(It is also possible to use SSL in conjunction with other Internet protocols.)

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