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Re: [cobalt-users] [RaQ2] Secure CNAME



At 03:25 AM 12/31/99  Fathi Said wrote:

My problem is: I want my clients to think that they are still on my website and don't see the payment.com URL, but
still the ssl.mydomain.com URL in their browsers.

Well....

The purpose of a certificate is to authenticate the site. True, we tend to think of certificates as supplying encryption. But if you ask Thawte or Verisign, they'll tell you that the purpose of a certificate is to authenticate the site.

When your visitor's browser gets data from <payment.com>'s secure server, the browser will show the site the data came from. That's why, when you order a certificate, you have to identify the site as it appears in URLs.

You MIGHT be able to go to one of your own pages, and then show <payment.com>'s pages in a frame.

I hope not, though; it would destroy the main point of having security certificates.

Jeff

For non-secure sites this can be done via a Cname (ssl.mydomain.com --> www.payment.com), obviously. But how can I do this for
secure sites so that the browser still indicates "Yes, this site is secure"?

Thanks for any help.
Fathi