[HCoop-Discuss] Regarding https

[Davor Ocelic]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:11:45 +0530
"Tanveer Singh" <tanveer at hcoop.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> I was going through the member manual for new setup, and it seems that
> for https you need to request IP and blah blah blah.
> Now this thing is good for people whose websites are being logged in
> by other people and they cannot have certificate errors showing up,
> but for someone like me who uses https just to prevent password theft,
> it would be a good idea to use something common. For example on old
> setup, I used https and got warnings of certificate not matching the
> site etc., but I don't care about warnings.
> Can there be an update about the same on the wiki on how to get https
> without all this ip request thing. This way we can use https, no new
> ip addresses are needed. Of course there will be certificate warning,
> but those of us who use this only for admin account logging in, its a
> don't care.

You can use https over a "common thing". Take look at 
examples on the Wiki for mwolson.org and spinlocksolutions.com.
They both manage to have https over a non-private IP.

-doc