Re: forcing secure via name (off topic?)

1999-05-11 Thread Derek Smith
Eric, What you need to do is to add the IP address and 'secure' hostname to one line in your hosts file, then add the below to you httpd.conf. I assume you don't mean all hosts('secure' and 'www') from 1 IP. You will need a DNS entry for secure.hostname.org. VirtualHost

Re: forcing secure via name (off topic?)

1999-05-11 Thread Lin
I am curious. IF the server certificate had a common name www.xxx.org and the virtual host is yyy.xxx.org, should the browser considering the server a fake? On Tue, 11 May 1999, Derek Smith wrote: Eric, What you need to do is to add the IP address and 'secure' hostname to one line in

Re: forcing secure via name (off topic?)

1999-05-11 Thread Simon Garner
- Original Message - From: Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 2:45 AM Subject: Re: forcing secure via name (off topic?) I am curious. IF the server certificate had a common name www.xxx.org and the virtual host is yyy.xxx.org, should

Re: forcing secure via name (off topic?)

1999-05-11 Thread Steffen Dettmer
I am curious. IF the server certificate had a common name www.xxx.org and the virtual host is yyy.xxx.org, should the browser considering the server a fake? If the Browser talks to yyy.x:443 he expects a X509 Cert with CN=yyy.xxx In the case described by you the CN is invalid (from browsers

forcing secure via name (off topic?)

1999-05-10 Thread Eric Gus
Server Version: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_perl/1.19 PHP/3.0.7 mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.2b works fine as http and as https. How can I force ssl when a user uses the url http://secure.hostname.org (redirect/rewrite to https://secure.hostname.org) and deny ssl for http(s)://www.hostname.org I'd

Re: forcing secure via name (off topic?)

1999-05-10 Thread Simon Garner
Redirect / http://www.hostname.org/ /VirtualHost Where 123.123.123.123 is your IP address. I just made all that up, so it may or may not work :) Cheers, Simon Garner - Original Message - From: Eric Gus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 2:21 PM Subject