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a question about secure pages using the http"s" url.

I have a customer that is requiring to be put on a secure server. I am preparing myself to set this up for the first time... Although I have gather some information on puting this job together, I am very interested in here what role this may play relating to crawlability and/or robot comprehension or effect.

Is there any issue known at this time that I should be aware of... Does the http:// differ in any way as compared to https:// ?

You don't want to make the whole site https; do you? I know on my order page; if you access it with https it doesn't look like it's ever been crawled. However; if you hit it without the https, it appears to have been crawled, but it doesn't have pagerank - altho at one point it did.

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As well; a secure server in most cases is nothing but a folder that is called securely, whether that folder is below their root directory or no. You are simply given a path to be able to use a shared cert. If you are getting your own cert; there should be no need to change servers. The cert is installed; and you call your files securely.

<plug> Here's a bit of an article on ssl on me site:

http://flawebworks.com/ssl/

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cool - thanks ....