All Articles on Web Design - SSL

Sensitive pages on your web site need to be protected by using https. Login screens, ecommerce sections all need to encrypt users entry details. This utility routine will force the current web page to be only viewed through the https ssl protocol.

There is a program called makecert.exe which will create a certificate that is adequate for development testing your SSL setup, before using a properly bought certificate from places like Thawte, Verisign, GeoTrust, on your production website.

This example uses IIS6 for both export and installation. It uses the .pfx file creation to allow the copying of a certificarte from one server to another.