Clicking that symbol shows the name of the company that registered the SSL
certificate (see Figure 10-5).
Figure 10-5. Verifying a web site certificate in Opera
The certificate that we have from XAMPP, issued by the local machine, is not in the list of
trusted certificate providers (obviously). With this setup, web browsers will show a warning
message, such as the one displayed by Safari shown in Figure 10-6.
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Figure 10-6. Safari doesn??™t like untrusted certificates.
If you click Show Certificate, you can see that the certificate has been issued by localhost
for Apache Friends. Apache Friends (http://www.apachefriends.org) is the maker of the XAMPP
package.
The warning message you get when using an untrusted certificate varies from browser to
browser. In Internet Explorer 7, the message is even more obvious (see Figure 10-7).
Figure 10-7. Internet Explorer doesn??™t like untrusted certificates either.
Configuring TShirtShop for SSL
If you decide to use SSL, you??™ll need to install an SSL certificate, as shown in the next few
pages. When using SSL, it??™s also advisable to force any sensitive page to be accessed through
SSL; that is, if anyone tries accessing a sensitive page (such as the login page) through http://,
the request will be automatically redirected to an https:// URL.
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