Re: problem

["Webmaster" <webmaster@vallnet.com>]

I had a similar problem with AOL customers not being able to make the switch
from somedomain to othersecuredomain. The only reasonable solution I came to
was set up two stores, one on the customers domain, and one on our secure
certificate domain, with a link on the index page to the second one and a
note for AOL users to go there.  I worked on this problem for three weeks
and could never get AOL to keep a shopping cart across to the secure domain.
Unless your customer wishes to purchase some sort of secure certificate for
his domain name, I don't know of any other way to do this.
     Eric Esslinger
           Webmaster, Valley Internet LLC
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Hanley <brian@hanley.net>
To: <minivend-users@minivend.com>
Cc: <par@parrett.net>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 10:32 AM
Subject: problem


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>
> All:
>
> I'm having a configuration (I think) problem w/ Minivend 3.12 running on
> Linux 2.0.36 & Apache/Stronghold 1.3.6.
>
> This particular installation is being used to provide catalog service to
our
> customers (we're an ISP), rather than for ourselves.  The problem is most
of
> our customers do not care to purchase a secure server certificate for
their
> catalogs.  Our current solution is to make it so that the catalog starts
off
> from there domain (certificateless and unsecured), and when secure
services
> are needed it switches to our domain.  This works ok most of the time, but
> occasionally it will drop the cart's contents annoying our customers.
>
> I looked at the FAQ, and the suggested fix was to make sure
HostnameLookups
> matched for both servers (it's the same - the secure and unsecured our on
> the same server), and if that failed, turn DomainTail to No & IpHead to
Yes.
> It looks to me like a lot of AOL users would not be able to access the
sites
> any longer w/ DomainTail turned off because of the sub par browsers.  Is
> this correct?
>
> I'm about to make it so that the entire catalog runs off of our domain
which
> I think would probably eliminate this problem.  We have one customer in
> particular who would probably be annoyed, however, so I would rather not.
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Brian Hanley
> Parrett Internet Technologies
> hanley@parrett.net
>
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