[Gllug] Couple of questions about HTTPS

[Richard Jones]

... for all you experienced web technicians out there.

We want to deploy mod_ssl as an option for our sites.  Implementing
this isn't a problem, of course.  But I want to ask a couple of
relevant questions:

(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?

(2) We need to get a certificate, and last time I looked into this,
one needed to get a separate certificate for each and every site,
_and_ run them all on separate IP addresses.  Running the sites on
separate IP addresses isn't an option for us.  Paying lots of money
for a certificate for each site also isn't an option.  Can we run them
on the same IP address and either share a certicate or get very cheap
/ free certificates?  The site names aren't related to each other -
for example although we run lots of *.team-notepad.com and
*.merjis.com sites, we also host intranets for companies as
"intranet.company.com" and a ton of other random domains.

Rich.

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