make online form secure
I want to offer a form on a web page which people can fill out with their name, phone number and email address and then click on a Submit button and have the info arrive in my email box.
How would I go about making this a secure page, with the padlock closed, so they could see their info is encrypted? I don't know coding beyond html and css.
Thanks
xtreme
kb posted this at 05:12 — 8th July 2007.
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You would need to have a "secure certificate", and an "https://" address. There's many ways to do those...
Are you running your own server, or do you rent hosting from somewhere (and if so, what kind of plan... virtual dedicated? reseller? etc.)
Xtreme posted this at 05:40 — 8th July 2007.
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Brady, I am in the process of building the site and will be renting space where I will have the choice of a Windows or Linux platform on a shared server.
xtreme
kb posted this at 07:29 — 8th July 2007.
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If you are renting space, then your decision will be dependent upon what is available to you. Chances are you can use PHP, so that will be the way to go, but it will require learning some programming.
After you rent some space, and have specifications of your renting, then we can be of more help.
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 16:49 — 8th July 2007.
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There's no point in having the form secure if it's just going to be emailed to you unless you have a secure connection to your mailbox.
kb posted this at 17:04 — 8th July 2007.
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Right. My suggestion was going to be using a combo of PHP and PGP (encrypting)... but I think we should wait until we get more details on the server's capabilities before making any promises here...
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