[9681] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Free SSL [was: need performance info (CGI/NT)]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BearHeart / Bill Weinman)
Fri Jan 26 21:08:29 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 20:03:46 -0600
To: Matthew James Marnell <marnellm@portia.portia.com>
From: BearHeart / Bill Weinman <bearheart@bearnet.com>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
At 05:26 pm 1/26/96 -0500, Matthew James Marnell spake:
>:>There are also SLL versions of Apache available.
>
>Wouldn't put too much credence in that. Yes, there is an SSL
>version, I paid the $495 for it, but those *@#$&*@#$% over at
>VeriSign will not sign certificates for it. The sales drone
Evidently it can be done. Check out Alex Tang's "The Neverending
Saga of Deploying a Free SSL Compliant Web Server"
https://petrified.cic.net/~altitude/ssl/ssl.saga.html
He did it with SSLeay (the same package Secure Apache uses)
and the NCSA server. But it was far from easy and it's still
a "Non-Profit Only" certificate.
His site has *all* the gory details--and he names names.
(BTW, when I connect to that URL I get a blue stripe and
a double-toothed key in Netscape.)
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