The Firing Line Forums - View Single Post - TFL and SSL ("invalid certificate" messages)

**tyme** · March 28, 2009, 12:50 PM

One of the cheaper ones is comodo instantssl I think... $99/yr for 1 year, down to $65/yr for a 5-year cert.

It's just asinine to pay for a cert for TFL when hardly anyone would use it. The whole SSL thing was supposed to be optional for people who know they want it, know what the security implications are, and know enough to check if TFL supports it... (as you point out, most people won't even know about it unless they try it or get hijacked into using it because of silly search indexes and/or silly people linking to tfl with https://).

Chuck, thanks for the input, but we don't want Googlebot to get confused. We just want it indexing http:// pages rather than https://

March 28, 2009, 12:50 PM	#4
tyme Staff Join Date: October 13, 2001 Posts: 3,355	One of the cheaper ones is comodo instantssl I think... $99/yr for 1 year, down to $65/yr for a 5-year cert. It's just asinine to pay for a cert for TFL when hardly anyone would use it. The whole SSL thing was supposed to be optional for people who know they want it, know what the security implications are, and know enough to check if TFL supports it... (as you point out, most people won't even know about it unless they try it or get hijacked into using it because of silly search indexes and/or silly people linking to tfl with https://). Chuck, thanks for the input, but we don't want Googlebot to get confused. We just want it indexing http:// pages rather than https:// __________________ “The egg hatched...” “...the egg hatched... and a hundred baby spiders came out...” (blade runner) “Who are you?” “A friend. I'm here to prevent you from making a mistake.” “You have no idea what I'm doing here, friend.” “In specific terms, no, but I swore an oath to protect the world...” (continuum) “It's a goal you won't understand until later. Your job is to make sure he doesn't achieve the goal.” (bsg)