On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Andrea Lardicci wrote:
> >To achieve this the first thing is to enable SSL on IIS with a
> >server certificate (I didn't bought a right one but generate one
> >with MS certificate server).
>
> You can also get a trial certificate (up to one year) from Thawte
> (Verisign)
>
> >The only thing to take care about is not to have hard coded links
> >in your html, jsp, servlets, and I must admit I had a good few one
> >to modify.
>
> What do you mean with "hard coded links"? If you want your browser
> to use SSL you must specify https in your links both for servlets
> (form tag action) and html. Obviously SSL must be required on your
> link targeted object, I mean html page or servlet (using JRun with
> IIS there is the 12404 knowledge base article explains the setting
> needed to enable SSL on your servlets). I successfully use SSL on
> servlets but I never tried from JSP. AL
By "hard coded links", (I believe) they mean something of the form:
https://www.mydomain.com/path/to/whatever
as opposed to something of the form
/path/to/whatever
I suppose "hard coded" isn't the best term to distinguish those two,
maybe "fully qualified" or something like that might be better. But
I'm pretty sure this is what they mean. The idea is if you don't
specify the "https://www.mydomain.com" part of it, it will use
whatever was used for the original request (both protocol and
domain). I think in general there are pros and cons to doing it this
way, but it should deal with the situation here.
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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