[Gllug] Couple of questions about HTTPS

[Russell Howe]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 08:51:40PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> (1) The easiest way for us to deploy it is to have the images sent
> over SSL.  The reason is that the <img> links are all site-relative
> (/image/foo.gif instead of http://example.com/image/foo.gif), and
> changing it to work any other way is a pain.  Is this going to be a
> problem, load-wise?  Does anyone have any experience on how this
> scales?

If you have a page served over HTTPS which includes images from a
non-HTTPS location, most browsers will issue a security warning about
the page containing a mixture of secure and insecure content, which is a
little offputting.

As for running multiple SSL sites from the same IP address, unless they
all have the same hostname, you will have to run them on seperate ports
AFAIK, which again looks a little messy to the client.

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