Re: [Cppcms-users] Embedded local HTTPS server

[Marcel H. <ke...@co...>]

Am 21.03.2012 13:08, schrieb william lee:
> Hi,
> I read the roadmap of CppCMS, it looks like current version's embedded 
> web server does not support HTTPS.
> http://cppcms.com/wikipp/en/page/cppcms_1x_tasks#Implement.HTTPS.support
> I have a basic question regarding that.
>
> For example, if a website support HTTPS.  Then it should use SSL 
> certificate, and signed, verified by 3rd organization, like Verisign. 
> And this SSL should bind to domain.
> We can create self signed security, but browser will pop up a SSL 
> warning page/dialog while loading the https site.
>
> The question is, what if I want to create a embedded HTTPS server, 
> running on localhost and accept request from localhost.
> How can I provide the certificate to this HTTPs site?  I guess 
> Verisign will not provide any ssl info bind to Localhost  domain:)
> So how can I make sure web browser request to localhost:443 via HTTPS 
> will not pop up SSL warning page/dialog?
>
> Thanks,
> William L.
afaik there is no solution. Localhost is a virtual domain of the 
loopback device.
In Firefox e.g. you only have once to accept this warning and then it 
never shows up. Why is it so important for you, that now warning is 
displayed? If you are running it on your localhost, nobody else can 
access to it.