How can I use both http and https for the same website? -- iis security

iis security : How can I use both http and https for the same website?

blasapher NO[at]SPAM cox.net
11/7/2005 10:23:37 PM

First of all, I'm new here; and just now learning IIS - so thanks for
being patient with me!

I have a website, www.mywebsite.com, that has default page of
default.aspx.

I have applied the SSL to the entire site.

Now, my customer would like to be able to do this:

They would like to go to www.mywebsite.com and have a page come up
(lets call it index.html) that is just a text page about the site.
Then, for those people who know about the site; they can type the
https://www.mywebsite.com and the default page will launch and they can
login to the database. How can I do this?

Any input is appreciated!
Steph

David Wang [Msft]
11/7/2005 10:35:25 PM

Make the default page an ASP page, and write code in the page that checks if
the request is over SSL or not. If not over SSL, just output the text page
about the site. If over SSL, send page to do user login.

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First of all, I'm new here; and just now learning IIS - so thanks for
being patient with me!

I have a website, www.mywebsite.com, that has default page of
default.aspx.

I have applied the SSL to the entire site.

Now, my customer would like to be able to do this:

They would like to go to www.mywebsite.com and have a page come up
(lets call it index.html) that is just a text page about the site.
Then, for those people who know about the site; they can type the
https://www.mywebsite.com and the default page will launch and they can
login to the database. How can I do this?

Any input is appreciated!
Steph

karl levinson, mvp
11/16/2005 12:00:00 AM

Better yet, since the content in the http and https sites sounds to be
mutually exclusive, consider putting the http site files into one folder,
the https files into another folder, and serve up the two folders as two
different virtual servers, one listening only for HTTP and one that requires
HTTPS for access.

I think the theoretical problem with writing your own script for such
security is that it is elegant and less simple, so more chance for something
to go wrong or for a security problem to occur as compared to using the
checkboxes in IIS and mingling the code into one common folder / server
instance.

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