RE: [cobalt-users] Shared SSL Certificate

["Ben Koshy" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Carrie,

The SSL certficate is keyed to the domain name / URL you encode the
certificate with.  So if you want http://secure.yourdomain.com to be the
secure URL, then only that URL will show up as secure.  If you attempt to
use a certificate on client site, the browser will pop up a warning that
says "Sorry, the site does not match the certificate".  Which is not what
you want.  You can get advanced wildcard domains certificates that make
anything.yourdomain.com secure from Verisign but they are waaaay more
expensive ($1500 I think).  Then you could have client1.yourdomain.com,
client2.yourdomain.com and give them personal secure sites.

Right now we use the $125 Thawte Certificate on our domain and give our
users folders underneath that like:

	https://secure.yourdomain.com/customer1
	https://secure.yourdomain.com/~customer2

______________________________________________
Ben Koshy                      ben@xxxxxxxxxxx
Technical Manager              www.w3media.net
W3 International Media Ltd   604.871.9899 x388

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Carrie
> Bartkowiak
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 10:10 AM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] Shared SSL Certificate
>
>
> Before I go paying for an SSL certificate and end up getting the wrong
> one...
> Can I get a certificate for the server (allaboutchoice.com) and then allow
> my virtual sites to share the use of this certificate?
> If so, how would they address those URL's?  Just like:
> https://www.theirdomain.com/whateverpage.html  and it would come up
> automatically because the *server* has a certificate?
>
> Just fyi, I'm looking at getting a Thawte certificate for $125.
> Carrie Bartkowiak
>
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