At Wed, 19 May 2010 16:36:00 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > > Is there any *legitimate* reason why someone would want to *type* > > https://domainname.com in the location/address bar? There really should > > not be a reason to do that. If people are doing this, then that means > > there is some reason for it (maybe the https://www.domtainname.com/... > > link is too deeply burried in the regular site?). > > No, I don't think there is a legitimate reason for it, but it came up > as a possible situation during our testing, so they wanted me to fix > that issue as well. As far as I know, no one actually every types in > https://domainname.com, but management wants it fixed anyway. So that > is why I asked the question. > > if they were to go to the proper front page of our site, and just > click through links, they would end up on a https://www.domainname.com > site, and the certificate would work. I think they are just wanting to > remove everything that could possibly be an error, even if it is only > a self-generated error. Do you have logs / Google Analytics reports that show that visitors are actually landing on https://www.domainname.com (other than your testing)? If not, you can show this to management. -- Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database heller at deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk