Disadvantages to site-wide SSL?
Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:49 am
Hi everyone
Just a quick question. Are there any reasons why you wouldn't have your entire site defaulting to an SSL encrypted connection?
The one I can think of is if you're planning on pulling in remote images/scripts from a non-secure site. That would give you security errors.
But is there any performance reasons why I shouldn't?
A site I'm working on is an e-commerce subscription database and should all be self-contained.
Just wondered if there's any best-practice/performance issues which mean I should only use SSL when its needed to encrypt data between client and server
Cheers, B
Just a quick question. Are there any reasons why you wouldn't have your entire site defaulting to an SSL encrypted connection?
The one I can think of is if you're planning on pulling in remote images/scripts from a non-secure site. That would give you security errors.
But is there any performance reasons why I shouldn't?
A site I'm working on is an e-commerce subscription database and should all be self-contained.
Just wondered if there's any best-practice/performance issues which mean I should only use SSL when its needed to encrypt data between client and server
Cheers, B