[ic] Inet mode and SSL...

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Mike Heins)]

Quoting Jeff Dafoe (jeff@badtz-maru.com):
> > SSL works for Apache fine.
> > But how do I get it to work for Interchange?
> > Having it try to connect to port 443, 7443, changing around the
> > httpd.conf SSL setting to listen to those for ssl connections (the
> > apache server responds securely just fine, it just isn't interchange
> > alas).
> 
>     Interchange doesn't do anything special for SSL aside from outputting
> links that have https instead of http in front of them.  The browser talks
> to apache, either via ssl or non-ssl, and apache talks to interchange,
> always on the same port, always via the same method.  Thus, I am confused by
> the cart.domain.com:7786 part since interchange typically doesn't
> communicate with the browser.

Actually, it does have an internal HTTP server that would work with that
URL without even having an Apache. But that would never support SSL.

>     If you have a configuration section in your apache configuration that is
> properly configured for interchange, then you can basically copy that block
> and add the appropriate SSL directives to it for the SSL configuration.
>     This is entirely a web server issue, though.  I think you may have a
> misunderstanding as to how interchange communicates with the browser.

This is very true.

-- 
Mike Heins
Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting    http://www.perusion.com/
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