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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Fair enough! I hadn’t realised the overhead was so low.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks and regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Richard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> zendto-bounces@zend.to [mailto:zendto-bounces@zend.to] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Field<br><b>Sent:</b> 09 September 2011 20:09<br><b>To:</b> ZendTo Users<br><b>Subject:</b> [ZendTo] Re: Forcing all logins to HTTPS<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>SSL is actually almost no overhead whatsoever. Google recently did a load of research work into this and worked out the CPU overhead is actually less than 1%, making it not wor worrying about. This is why they have gone totally https, it costs almost nothing to do.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>So please just leave the site working all https. I won't help you with all the wrangling and editing required to make only logins work https and everything http. It's not worth the bother. Sorry.<br><br>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Jules<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On 9 Sep 2011, at 11:40 AM, ROGERS Richard <<a href="mailto:Richard.Rogers@staffs.ac.uk">Richard.Rogers@staffs.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi –<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Progressing now with getting this ready for launch… Now I’m looking at ensuring that usernames/passwords are passed through an HTTPS (SSL) connection (and then flicking back to HTTP for the actual file transfer stage, where SSL seems an unnecessary overhead). <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This hasn’t been a problem for most pages (a simple Rewrite in the Apache config file has dealt with it), but I have hit a bit of an “edge case”, where if you click on Drop-off on the “home” page, you are returned to HTTP (I’m treating claim codes as “non-sensitive”), but then clicking the Login button on the top menu brings up the login dialog embedded in the verify.php page, without returning to HTTPS. As there seems to be a javascript catching the link and displaying this, I’m not sure how to get round this. Any suggestions (is there a “right way” to achieve what I’m looking for?)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks and regards<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Richard<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>--</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Richard Rogers</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Principal IT Officer, Client Technology and Applications</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Information Services, Staffordshire University</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Tel. 01785-353785</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>_______________________________________________<br>ZendTo mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ZendTo@zend.to">ZendTo@zend.to</a><br><a href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/zendto">http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/zendto</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>