[ic] "Secure" basket

Joshua Lavin interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Thu May 29 16:58:01 2003


On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 08:19  AM, Jamie Neil wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've just enabled ssl on my site for the first time, and have 
> discovered a
> rather annoying problem that didn't show up beforehand.
>
> When the user goes to the basket page, the URL is insecure which is 
> correct.
> When they click through to the checkout the secure=1 on the form passes
> control to the secure pages which is also correct.
>
> The problem is that if the user clicks recalculate, empty basket or 
> continue
> shopping in the basket page, they are redirected to the secure site 
> rather
> than the normal one. I checked the demo site at icdevgroup and it 
> behaves
> the same way.
>
> The only way around this that I can think of is to insert an 
> intermediate
> page between the basket and the checkout that handles the move from 
> secure
> to insecure more gracefully.
>
> Has anyone got a better suggestion?
>
> Jamie Neil
> Versado I.T. Services Ltd.

Are you meaning by "secure site" having https in front, rather than 
http?

We have a secure cert and I do not notice this behavior on our site 
(www.shopalert.us). It's always http until you click Checkout.

Josh