Yes. Go to Thawte www.thawte.com ($125 1st year, $100 renewals) or Equifax ($79) http://www.equifaxsecure.com/digitalcertificates/dc_webservcert.html instead of Verisign, although Thawte is now owned by Verisign/Network Solutions. Thawte has some pretty good online instructions on the process, with detailed instructions for each OS and web server. It usually takes two or three days to process and issue the certificate. Basically, you generate a private key and a certificate request in IIS' key manager. You send the certificate request to one of these guys and they verify the company information (helps to have a DUNS number) and they issue you the certificate which you then install in key manager. One thing to keep in mind. I screwed this up the first time I bought a cert - the certificate is issued for only one host name and can only be used for that one host. For example, "secure.mydomain.com". If you tried to use this certifcate on "www.mydomain.com" most browsers will complain that there's a discrepancy. So, decide exactly where you'll be using the certificate before you generate the request. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Starner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 1:44 PM Subject: SSL > How can I "enable" HTTPS? > Do I need to purchase a certificate from VeriSign or what? > I'm running IIS5 on Win2k Server. > > Thanks > > Aaron Starner | Systems Analyst > MCP | A+ Certified | ColdFusion Developer > Full Service Networking | www.FullService.Net > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 513.782.4200 x217 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body or visit the list page at www.houseoffusion.com
