Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Securing pages with SSL

Many times we need to secure pages with SSL security. To test this in development environment we may not have the actual certificate. I am writing down the steps to achieve this.

1)Create a test certificate using Makecert.exe tool
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms751408.aspx

2)Flipping between http and https pages in the website.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/60706/Switching-Between-HTTP-and-HTTPS-Like-A-Bigshot-Ho