Users Guide

Chapter 23 - SSL (Secure Server)

If you have a hosting plan that allows the use of SSL, this is the information you need to access it. Following is an example of the website address (url) of one of your secure server pages, named yourpage.html:

https://host.askuswhatserveryou'reon/yourdomain/yourpage.html

Email us or send a support request to find out what server you're on, so you'll know what address to use.
DO NOT INCLUDE the extension for your domain.

Normally, any text (such as a credit card number) sent from your visitors' browser to the web server is sent as plain text. This means that a hacker could potentially intercept (however unlikely) the information sent from your browser and read it. Therefore, by using the secure server, the information is encrypted before it is sent from your browser. It would be practically impossible for anyone to decrypt it without knowing the key.

The following example uses yourdomain as the name of your domain and any page as the name of the order form or the page you wish to be secure.

Use the following URL to call your pages via the secure server.

https://host.askuswhatserveryou'reon/yourdomain/yourpage.html

Using Formmail through the secure server

If you are using Fommail with the secure server, your action line and other code will look like the following:

<FORM METHOD=POST 
     ACTION="https://host.askuswhatserveryou'reon/yourdomain
     /cgi-sys/formmail.pl">
<input type=hidden name="recipient" 
     value="emailaccount@yourdomain.com">
<input type=hidden name="subject" 
     value="Order">
<input type=hidden name="redirect" 
     value="https://host.askuswhatserveryou'reon/yourdomain
     /yourredirectpage.html">

https://host.askuswhatserveryou'reon/yourdomain
        /yourorderform.html       

NOTE: yourdomain = without the .com, .net, etc. extension.