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1.0.1   SSL Status/Controls:

SSL Engine STATUS: OFF
SSL Server Name: www.garyhull.com
Server Certificate Status: Self Signed - Valid Date

Turn SSL Engine ON: [SSL ON]

1.0.2   SSL and certificate notes:

All of our WeTCaT engine based websites including this domain, garyhull.com, employ the use of SSL (Secured Socket Layer) protocol. Both ApacheSSL and Apache+mod_ssl are employed depending on the equipment and server to which you are connected. The site engine will automatically switch you back and forth from https (Secured:443) and http (Non-secured:80) modes, this is accomplised by several mechanisims for various reasons. Hopefully switching occurs without your even being aware of the change. However there are a few items which may require a little explaination to help you understand what is happening and why messages appear at certin points:

1) Some of our site server certificates where created by know authorities and your browser will accept them without notice, however do to the large number of servers we employ some of our server certificates are self signed, meaning that we created the certificates ourselves rather than paying the costly yearly fees associated with maintaining known authority signed keys.

What this means in terms of operation? When you are swicthed to SSL mode for the first time in a given session on a server with a self signed certificate your browser will prompt you with an message: The message is simply letting you know that the certificate was signed by an UNKNOWN Authority. Meaning not signed by a compnay in the list inside your browser. You will note that the certificate is infact VALID and CORRECT for the server you are running. Simply answer YES to Proceed and it will not prompt you again with this message during your browser session. You do not need to permenatly install this certificate path as the server you are using may indeed be equiped with a KNOW AUTHORITY certificate the next time you visit.

2) When using SSL you may encounter pages that are accessing remote images that do not reside on the current server, items having fully quallified URLs to remote servers which do not require SSL. We have tried to avoid this for the most part automatically, however, if you are prompted with "THIS PAGE CONTAINS BOTH SECURE AND NON SECURE ITEMS DO YOU WANT TO DISPLAY THE NON SECURE ITEMS, simply answer yes. These are more than likly just images from one of our other servers that do not require SSL. Not anything to worry about.. No pages are requesting secured information entry will have this type of error on them. Only when you browse content system i.e photo manger etc. while SSL is enabled will this message appear.

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