[DeTomaso] It's Finally Here . . . The NEW on-line POCA Club Store

[Asa Jay Laughton]

PS. Trevor, I've enabled your account if you'd like to try and log in 
and provide any feedback.

Thank you,
Asa Jay

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired

& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA

1973 Pantera L 5533
[ASASCAT]
    
******************************     
http://www.asajay.com
http://www.351c.info
  



Asa Jay Laughton wrote:
> Trevor,
>
> Thank you for pointing that out.  We did some research on certificates 
> and found to get the "green" bar on IE7 was rather expensive.  This is 
> still something I'm considering.  I have been using GoDaddy as my 
> registrar for some years now and they have some of the most reasonable 
> prices.
>
> The site is still accessible, you just have to "accept" the 
> certificate.  Under Firefox, once you accept it permanently, you are 
> never prompted again.  Under IE 7, you are constantly prompted each 
> time you visit the site (at least from my testing), and are given the 
> Red address bar.
>
> Yes, the cert was generated locally on asajayinc.com (not asajay.com), 
> and used 2048 bit encryption.  Microsoft might not trust me (and they 
> might have good reason to.  heheheh ), but for our purposes right now, 
> it should be okay.
>
> Thanks,
> Asa Jay
>
> Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
>
> & Shelley Marie
> Spokane, WA
>
> 1973 Pantera L 5533
> [ASASCAT]
>    ******************************     http://www.asajay.com
> http://www.351c.info
>  
>
>
>
> Trevor Fougere wrote:
>> Asa,
>>  
>> The store looks good.  Some people, however, will have trouble 
>> accessing it
>> because of the SSL certificate you are using.  It looks like you 
>> generated
>> your own certificate using www.asajay.com as the Certificate Authority.
>>  
>> Browsers are throwing an error because of "Website Certified by an 
>> Unknown
>> Authority".  In Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox 2.0 or higher the user
>> gets a message indicating a problem with the certificate and is 
>> allowed to
>> proceed to the site, but only after indicating that they want to.
>>  
>> Earlier versions of Internet Explorer, such as 6.x, merely indicate 
>> the site
>> is not reachable.  While Verisign certificates are the most 
>> expensive, they
>> are also the most widely trusted.  You can, however, get certificates 
>> from
>> other "Authorities" for much less cost.  For example, godaddy.com,
>> digicert.com, thawte.com, geotrust.com, networksolutions.com, 
>> dotster.com,
>> etc.... with prices starting down in the $35 neighborhood for one year.
>>  
>> People using Internet Explorer 6 can get Explorer 7 for free from the
>> microsoft website at:  
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9ae91ebe-3385-447c- 
>>
>> 8a30-081805b2f90b
>> <http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9ae91ebe-3385-447c 
>>
>> -8a30-081805b2f90b&displaylang=en> &displaylang=en
>>  
>> Note, that IE 7 requires Windows XP SP2 or higher.  Windows 2000 
>> users can't
>> get it, and should install Firefox from the mozilla.com website if they
>> still can't get to the store.
>>  
>> Hope this helps.
>>  
>> Trevor
>> #3797
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