[THIN] Re: Tip of the Week: Easy way for users to install Microsoft Certificate from your Web Interface
- From: "Evan Mann" <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 18:11:48 -0400
Yup. Until I got involved, we did everything with VeriSign. Everyone
knows their name, so people default to them. No good reason to do that
however.
I switched to GeoTrust under an Enterprise SSL agreement, which drops it
down to $200/year for a 1 year on a "pay as you go" (uses a credit
card), or $145/year if I buy a block of 5 SSL certs at 2 year duration
up front, which gives you 2 extra free months I think. There are even
higher discounts for bigger volumes.
Thawte is also cheaper then VeriSign, and RapidSSL.com is one of the
cheapest and still be fully trusted as part of the root certifies
provided by Windows.
We wanted to stay with a "big name", so it was VeriSign, Thawte, or
GeoTrust, and I heard good things about GeoTrust customer service, so we
ended up there. I'm happy with the choice, especially given the fact
that I can have them pre-register domains, and once that occurs, I can
order new SSL certs and approve them all by myself. Nice and quick.
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of M
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 5:38 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Tip of the Week: Easy way for users to install
Microsoft Certificate from your Web Interface
$1300 for an SSL cert ...... is that for real ?
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Kenzig http://ThinHelp.com <http://ThinHelp.com>
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 6:56 PM
Subject: [THIN] Tip of the Week: Easy way for users to install
Microsoft Certificate from your Web Interface
Hi All,
After my Verisign cert on my web interface got corrupted and I
went to verisign to get a replacement and found that they wanted $100 to
give me a copy of a cert that I paid $1300 for I said no more! So we
installed a Microsoft Certificate on our web interface server.
But now how to explain to 1300 users how to install it?? Ugh.
Well I happened across Thomas Koetzing's tip on how to
automatically install it via activeX.
See:
http://www.thomaskoetzing.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6
1&Itemid=101
This tip gives you explicit instructions in the download on how
to install the necessary files to make the private certificate load when
the user accesses your
web interface page via activeX.
Of course not wanting to scare my users with ActiveX I went the
route of just placing a link to an asp file I put on the server that
loads the cert with two yes clicks by the user:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297681
The above article is a pretty much a copy and paste deal. Just
copy the text and create a file and put it in your root Web interface
directory. The only thing you need to change
in the file is the location of where your certificate file
resides on your server.
I then just edited the /auth/header.inc file and put a link to
the asp file I created from the above article.
Works like a champ!
Jim Kenzig <mailto:web at kenzig.com>
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