astralaaron Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 Hi I was just wondering if someone could fill me in on how an shtml page works / is set up?and what type of situations (credit card processing) should shtml be used? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 A .shtml page is just a page that uses server-side includes, it doesn't have anything to do with security. It's like an HTML page that can use something similar to PHP's include statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 I think he's referring to the HTTPS protocol.I think that you have to buy a certificate or something like that to use it on your server.It means that information sent is encrypted so that it can't be seen and used by third parties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astralaaron Posted August 28, 2008 Author Share Posted August 28, 2008 I think he's referring to the HTTPS protocol.I think that you have to buy a certificate or something like that to use it on your server.It means that information sent is encrypted so that it can't be seen and used by third parties.You're right, I got confused between the two. is there any special coding for a https page? or is it like I am immagining, just a secure folder that you put your files in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 You're right, I got confused between the two. is there any special coding for a https page? or is it like I am immagining, just a secure folder that you put your files in?I really don't know much about it. But I think you have to configure your server to send and receive encrypted information. It's not something you can program in PHP or any other web language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 In IIS you can specify that a certain directory requires a connection over SSL, you have to load the details about your SSL certificate into IIS first. Typically you can access any resource over HTTPS, but you can also set it up so that a certain directory requires it. Your server just needs to have a certificate installed. I've never set it up with Apache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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