RE: [cobalt-users] Shared SSL Certificate

[Jesus Gonzalez <jgonzalez@xxxxxxxx>]

I don't think that's going to work.  As I understand it, you need to have a
certificate for each DOMAIN, regardless of whether it's a virtual one or
not.  SO if you purchase a certificate for aboutchoice.com, and let's say
you want to create a secured site for customer1.com, then the only way to do
it would be something like https://www.aboutchoice.com/customer1
You're not buying a certificate for the server, you're buying it for the
domain.  I give people the option of using a secured page under my domain,
or paying the $300 or so to have their own certificate.
One thing you can do is to create a secured site for your customers to use,
something like secured.aboutchoice.com, then use that as a 'shared' secure
site for all of your customers, and charge them a nominal fee for using it.
Or charge them the full amount for their own certificate.

  -Jesus

-----Original Message-----
From: Carrie Bartkowiak [mailto:admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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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