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The secure environment refers to the transmission of information from web browser to web server.

• Unix Hosting Accounts
• Windows Hosting Accounts
• Securely Retrieving Data
• Using Your Own SSL Certificate

Unix Hosting Accounts

If you have a link to an order form, for example, from your home page, you would need to use a URL similar to following:

https://wwwXX.rapidsite.net/userid/form.html (XX = server number)

The "s" in https:// suggests an SSL related file. Substitute the path to the order form starting with your user as a directory name. If your account resides on server #102, you would need to use https://www102.rapidsite.net/userid/form.htm or 103, 104, etc. respectively depending on which server the secure form resides. You can check your SSL server and path in your control panel.

If the secure form calls a CGI script, you must also reference that script securely, e.g.:

<form method="post" action="https://wwwXX.rapidsite.net/<userid>/cgi-local/order.cgi">

Note: upgrading or downgrading plans may require a change of web server. In such instances, users will need to update their HTML and CGI scripts to reflect the new server number.

Windows Hosting Accounts

The following information will help you to use our shared SSL certificate to establish a secure connection through your Windows hosting account. This is a FREE option for our Windows 2003 Professional and higher web hosting plans.

To implement a secure connection for Windows hosting accounts, the syntax for an SSL digital certificate is:

https://userid.sslcert01.com/form.htm

For example, if your userid was "mytest" and your hosting account was located on server group number 1, then your secure URL would be:

https://mytest.sslcert01.com

Securely Retrieving Data

As mentioned above, the secure environment refers to the transmission of information between web browser and web server. We suggest that you have a script written to save the submitted form content to a text file on the server. In so doing, you can reference the text via secure URL and retrieve its content (e.g. sensitive account information) securely via the web thus completing the loop.

https://wwwXX.rapidsite.net/<userid>/datafile.txt

To protect the data from unauthorized web surfers, you can store the data file(s) in a password protected directory.

An alternative is to have the submitted form content sent to you via e-mail. If your form references a custom script, you will need to reference the script securely. We have not implemented a solution for encrypting e-mail.

Using Your Own SSL Certificate

If you are using your own SSL digital certificate on either a UNIX or a Windows hosting account, you can use the following syntax to create secure a link to a form:

https://www.yourdomain.com/form.html

For assistance in purchasing a digital certificate, see How to Obtain Your Own SSL Certificate.

Please note: the information on this page applies to ITS web hosting plans. It may or may not apply to other environments. If you are looking for a feature described here, or better support from your hosting provider, please consider hosting your site with ITS!

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