Does this Header output signify SSL support?

The header refers to SSL modules but the ISP says that SSL is not supported

[bellrj]

My home page is on a Virtual host with an ISP. They say that currently SSL is not available on the server (although they are supposed to be adding it in the future). When I checked my home page through the Header Tool on this site I got the following information:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:39:33 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.20 Sun Cobalt (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6b PHP/4.1.2 mod_auth_pam_external/0.1 FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_perl/1.25
Last-Modified: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 20:31:44 GMT

On the server line it mentions mod_ssl/2.8.4 and OpenSSL/0.9.6b. Does this mean that the server does indeed support SSL or is it referring to something else?

[BlobFisk]

Hey bellrj,

mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6b

This indicates that indeed SSL is installed - mod_ssl is an SSL component. But while the server setup supports SSL and has modules installed, they may not necessarily have it implemented.

Hope this helps!

[bellrj]

Yes, that's very helpful. Would you mind outlining what they might have to do to implement it? (feel free to be techie :-) ) Thanks!

[bird]

They would need to install a server certificate for your domain (that you can buy in a variety of places). Most likely they offer this service for an additional fee, or with a more expensive hosting plan than you're currently using.