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You can view your site in secure mode though, just go to [example.com...] instead of http://www.example.com. You'll just get that very annoying message (which will scare away 99% of your customers if you are accepting credit card orders on your site).
[edited by: tedster at 5:36 pm (utc) on Jan. 19, 2005]
[edit reason] use example.com [/edit]
When a page is requested, the secure certificate provides validation by the certifying service that you are who you say you are, and who is providing that verification (i.e., the company that you bought the cert from.)
Now. Here's the really IMPORTANT part. Depending on the quality and level of the cert, all data that is requested from or submitted to your domain is encrypted in transfer, usually in 64 bit or 128 bit (banking and military level) encryption. This means if a hacker intercepts or eavesdrops on this data transmission, they cannot decrypt it without obtaining the the security key that is part of your cert.
So no, there is no other way. :-D
Verisign are one of the vendors who give the certificate, are there any other vendors too... let me kniow
You'll just get that very annoying message (which will scare away 99% of your customers if you are accepting credit card orders on your site).
Are we talking here about the shared certificated that hosting providers like ours sometimes provide? It does produce a scary warning but our Ameritrade account produces the same scary warning. It gives a valid https connection but must loose a lot of traffic for sites without the name recognition of an Ameritrade.
Your own certificate cost over $200 last time I checked. I'm wondering what most small sites do here.
As for normal ecommerce sites, I would could with Verisign usually. They're the most trusted and known (they just cost alot more).
