Fwd: [UPHPU] User Login suggestions

Tierra etierra at gmail.com
Thu Sep 2 16:07:30 MDT 2004


This is really getting to my head... mailing list headers please!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tierra <etierra at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:06:14 -0600
Subject: Re: [UPHPU] User Login suggestions
To: Mac Newbold <mac at macnewbold.com>

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:24:41 -0600 (MDT), Mac Newbold <mac at macnewbold.com> wrote:
> Today at 2:22pm, Tierra said:
>
> >If you don't have the funds or getting a _signed_ SSL certificate
> >isn't worth the hassle, you can still sign your own certificates and
> >still run the entire user session over encryption, only the user will
> >be asked if your certificate is acceptable everytime they visit the
> >site.
>
> Actually, I've seen some places that post the public part of their SSL
> Cert pem file on the web, and smart browsers will download it when you
> click on the link, and ask you if you want to trust it. In otherwords, any
> sane browser will let you accept the cert forever instead of just one
> visit. (My mozilla offers it as an option any time I visit a site with a
> self-signed cert.)
>
> Mac

Now that you mention it, I have heard of that. Thanks Mac.

Bryan



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