Secure form?

[Trish]

Hi to Pat and the gang

I got the URL for the shared secure certificate from the other thread (someone wanting secure link to an image). I am on paperboy and trying to create a secure form for someone. Using the secure URL works as far as taking me to the form. But upon submitting it, all I keep getting is a 404 showing this URL:

Code:

https://secure25.vosn.net/~[username]/cgi-bin/cgiemail/mytemplatefile.txt  

(I have the correct username and txt file name in the real form)

That file does indeed exist on the server, I have quadruple checked and also made sure it was uploaded as ASCII. I also have a "success" page it should be taking me to. Am I missing something else? I have another *non-secure* form which works fine using the site's domain name and same cgi-bin.

I am wondering if I can actually process an email form using this secure link? If it can't be done this way, is there another way?

Desperate for help and most grateful for any that can be given  

[Pat]

Hi Trish,

I've sent you a PM...if you could send me the domain name, we can do further checking on this.  I think it should work, but need a bit more info to troubleshoot.

Or you could open a ticket on our support desk at https://ccc.webhsp.com and it will go into our support queue.  

Thanks
Pat

[Trish]

Just sent to you...thanks!!  

[Pat]

Thanks Trish. I'll have one of our techs take a look at this, maybe they can shed some light.

[Trish]

For the edification of anyone else looking to do this, here's the update. It cannot be done using the vosn.net secure URL's with the ~username (the technical aspects will have to be described by a higher mind than mine ). It is necessary to purchase your own SSL certificate to use with the site's domain name. I'm learning as I go and will post about the steps needed once it's done, in case it may help someone else in future

[Trish]

Update - John here at WebHSP ordered and installed an SSL certificate for me (with great speed, I may add!). Pricing is very reasonable for the SSL cert, and it's working perfectly. I hardly had to do a thing on my end, so any other SSL-clueless people out there, have no fear, it's painless to implement on your site thanks to these guys  

Cheers Pat and John!

Adding in a tip - if you make a secure form for your site, be sure to link to the "success" or "thank you" page with https:// also. This prevents the user from getting a "you are about to leave a secure page" message, which could cause them to think their submission wasn't sent securely after all. Any links on the success page to other pages should use the standard http:// (with no "s") to close the secure connection to the server.

[WHSP-Jarrod]

Hi Trish,

Glad to hear this was properly taken care of for you!

Just another tip, when you are making secure pages: Be sure to link to your images using relative URLs rather than absolute URLs.  This will prevent your browser from displaying the "This page contains both secure and non-secure items" error.  For example:

Code:

<img src="http://mydomain.com/images/image.gif" alt="My Image" />

Will not work, as the image is being called with the direct HTTP protocol, not the secure HTTPS protocol.  Instead, link to the image as follows:

Code:

<img src="/images/image.gif" alt="My Image" />

and you should be just fine!  Hope this helps.

[belkiska]

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