Ralf,
Please let me clarify. Our situation is that the CA
for our cert will be the US Dept. of Defense, thus
won't be automatically installed in any browser
until the user/robot successfully accepts the cert.
We're concerned that the Internet search engines/robots
will not be able to perform the cert acceptance phase
and thus stop indexing our data. We want them to continue
crawling our site if we are required to SSL-enable our
public information (I understand what SSL does and doesn't
do for us).
Can anyone answer this question?
Thanks,
Steve Luzzi
USAERDC-CERL
>
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2000, Steve Luzzi wrote:
>
> > At the risk of this being off-topic, I was wondering
> > if anyone knows whether the major Internet search
> > engines/indexers (Yahoo, Lycos, Altavista, etc.) have
> > the capability of indexing a site's data after it
> > switches from a non-SSL to an SSL-enabled site?
>
> Using SSL without any additional access control mechanisms just means that the
> server authenticates itself to the client and that the data transfer is
> encrypted. But nevertheless _everybody_ still can access the site. Seems like
> you still have not fully understood what SSL does and what not. Please read
> the Introduction chapter in the mod_ssl User Manual or consult other papers or
> books for details.
> Ralf S. Engelschall
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