Possible to test how site will act with SSL w/o having a certificate?

[r33k]

Hey,

I have a site being developed (asp.net web application under IIS 5) and will likely be on a server with SSL. I currently do not have an SSL certificate, but I am pretty sure this site will eventually go on a server with an SSL certificate (up to the client). I want to make sure that my pages will not cause a "This page has secure and nonsecure" popups on the browser, but since I don't have an SSL certificate I was wondering if there's an alternative way to test my site for nonsecure items.

I know there are free SSL certificate providers out there but they all require a registered domain, but I don't have that either :/

I don't know much about SSL, but in general I heard that that popup that I want to avoid occurs when you have resources (i.e. javascript files, include files, and images) that are referenced to using "http" rather than "https"

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

[Romeo]

You could configure your webserver to accept https on port 443 and generate an own private selfsigned certificate and use that. Should be OK for a first testing.
The testing client's browser, though, would pop-up with a message that it can't validate that private signature and if you want to accept that, on start of the https session.
Another pop-up, but may be a way to go.

Kind regards,
R.

[edited by: Romeo at 5:22 pm (utc) on Dec. 4, 2006]

[r33k]

thanks for the tip Romeo.

For those interested, i used this site to get SSL up and running:
[dylanbeattie.net...]

[Corey Bryant]

Comodo issues a free 30-day cert also

-Corey

[aspdaddy]

Also avoid using pdf files, there is a well known bug with pdf, IE6 & https .