Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Chapter 12
Normally, any text (such as
your credit card number) sent from your browser to the web server is sent as
plain text. This means that a hacker could potentially intercept (however
unlikely) the information sent from your browser and read it. Therefore, by
using the secure server, the information is encrypted before it is sent from
your browser. It would be practically impossible for anyone to decrypt it
without knowing the key.
The following example uses yourdomain as the name of your domain and any page as
the name of the order form or the page you wish to be secure.
Use the following url to call your pages via the secure server.
http://secureservername/yourdomain/anypage.html
Please contact support
to find out what secure server your account is on.
The above page would be accessed from the normal web server as:
http://example.com/anypage.html
Go to www.yourdomain.com/menu and click on Formmail and follow the
instructions for installing your formmail.
If you are calling the formmail through the secure server, your action line and
other code will look like the following:
<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="http://example.com/cgi-bin/formmail.pl">
<input type=hidden name="recipient" value="emailaccount@yourdomain.com">
<input type=hidden name="subject" value="Order">
<input type=hidden name="return_link_url" value="http://secure.cedant.com/yourdomain/yourpage">
<input type=hidden name="return_link_title" value="Back to
Your Page">
The last two lines allow a link back to your main page - thus they get a report
of what they ordered and a link.
It's important that you call your order page through a secure URL (http) in
order for it to work properly
Example:
http://example.com/yourorderform.htm
Remember if you need your secure server name or need your secure cgi-bin enabled
please contact Technical
Support and we will provide you with this information.