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Should I use https over entire site or catalog


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No, you shouldn't. There are threads here on this topic that go into detail as to why you shouldn't so you can look at those if you want to read more on it.

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No, OSC is set up to use https when it is required.

 

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SSL noticeably slows down page transmissions and responses. Unless you have a product line that people would be extremely embarrassed to be caught shopping in (by someone snooping on their transactions), or it's something required by government regulations (say, by HIPAA for products that would reveal medical information, such as your new Spring line of colostomy bags), additional security isn't needed. osC already uses SSL where it's generally agreed that it's necessary. If there are additional pages where you feel that SSL is needed, feel free to bring up the matter here, or just change the code yourself.

 

Note that if you plan to handle customer credit cards (through a payment gateway and merchant account), putting the whole site under SSL is still unnecessary. There are many security hurdles you have to jump to be PCI-DSS compliant, but SSL is required only in certain places.

 

I seem to recall being told that some search engines may not explore HTTPS pages, so you may be cutting yourself out of search engine listings by doing this. Can anyone confirm this?

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@@MrPhil They can, and do, look at secure pages if they are allowed to. For pages like login and checkout... they should be blocked so those won't present a problem. But if the whole site is setup to use ssl, then the home page, and others, would present two versions of the same page and the danger of duplicate content occurs.

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