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From: Philip Leonard <leolists@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re[2]: [gentoo-server] Re: "cannot I save this LOTS of money?" is about multi-domain web servers.
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:56:48
Message-Id: Mahogany-0.66.0-2184-20041014-095637.00@kc1leonardpn.dev.dsionline.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Re: "cannot I save this LOTS of money?" is about multi-domain web servers. by Zhang Weiwu
1 On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:19:51 +0800 Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@××××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > Philip Leonard wrote:
4 >
5 > >On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:01:46 +0800 Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@××××××.com> wrote:
6 > >
7 > >
8 > >
9 > >>Philip Leonard wrote:
10 > >>
11 > >>
12 > >>
13 > >>>Just get a wildcard certificate for the domain.
14 > >>>
15 > >>>
16 > >>>
17 > >>>
18 > >>Sorry? but I called entrust.com and they told me on the phone "one
19 > >>certificate for one domain, no wildcard certificate".
20 > >>
21 > >>Do you know any issuer (that trusted by IE 5.5) could issue wildcard
22 > >>certificate?
23 > >>
24 > >>
25 > >>
26 > >
27 > >freessl.com has wildcard certs and they claim a very high percentage of browsers will accept them.
28 > >
29 > >
30 > Sorry I cannot find related information. This is what I got from the site:
31 >
32 > "FreeSSL.com certificate range offers browser recognition rates from 99
33 > percent suitable for both test/development, lite ecommerce and high
34 > volume / high transaction value ecommerce."
35 >
36 > This is really not clear, what is recognition? Does this mean 99 percent
37 > of the browsers kept the site as trusted CA and will *not* pop up any
38 > warning for first time visitors regarding the certificate? I am not an
39 > experienced administrator, but I don't think it's possible.
40 >
41 >
42 That's how I read it and I know it works for me at my site. IE does not pop up any warnings.