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Securing Website on IIS5 W2K web server

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by rick berry

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I have a IIS5 webserver running W2K. I recently obtained a Verisign securite certificate for a Novell GroupWise Web based E-Mail site running on that server. I want the site to automatically connect secure (HTTPS) when a user enters the site withouthaving to type the HTTPS header in the url. When they enter the site "mail.***.***.***.***.***" I need it to automatically resolve the url as an HTTPS. Currently, the server returns an error to the user telling them they must enter HTTPS in the url when they use the convention "HTTP://MAIL.***.*****.*****".
How do I make the process automatic.

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by r. a. caluste

i would suggest that whenever users go to the http://url1, you redirect them using https://url2.

you can create a default asp page with a script that redirects you to an "absolute" path using the https protocol. asp's server.transfer won't work because you would require an absolute path and not a relative path and response.redirect could be troublesome.

you can use javascript, body onload=submit(), and in the page you can have a form and in the action you specify the https://url2 site

hope this helps.

by ronypp

Here are some of the links that I found, which might be useful for you..

http://peter.verhas.com/progs/c/nt/securedi/

http://www.iisfaq.com/Articles/407/

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/columns/security/5min/5min-301.asp

http://boxoption.olsen.ch/Security-en.html

http://www.intermapper.com/immanual/chapter5/devinfo.html

http://support.free-conversant.com/docs/simplemacros/redirect

http://www.kiwi-magic.com/dev/stuff/asp_misc.htm

http://www.west-wind.com/webconnection/docs/_S8W0RU73O.htm

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