Secure POSTing help needed

[israfel]

Can someone point me to a useful resource on this? I've tried simply making the form post to an https file but it merely timed out and the browser gave an "Encryption Failed" error but I know the server supports https encryption, the question is, how do I do it?

[sfullman]

I'm not sure what you mean by this. To post a form to a secure page, you simply have to use a statement like:

<form action="https://securesite.com/page.php" >

and you're in. Try making sure your form action has the https: in it.

Sam

[Anon]

What is entailed in creating a "secure" page? How do I set it up to recieve a https post? When I simply set a https url as my form action the form times out when submitted and gives an error.

[sfullman]

Well, to do this you need to have a digital certificate installed on your server. This is something you need to ask about on another forum. If you have a web host they should know exactly what to do, however https will probably fail like you mentioned until you have a specific location installed that can accept the https protocol trhough a digital cert.

Hope that helps. If you have your own server you have some work ahead of you, I've never done that before myself.

Sam Fullman
Compass Point Media