apache login messages

[Jay Cantwell]

I am running apache 1.3.19 mod_ssl/2.8.3.....

I would like to display a banner when a user initiates an https session with my apache web server. How can this be done please ??

thanks .. Jay

[James Specht]

You can not show a banner when someone does an https connection to you server. If you have a page at http://myserver/index.html and the user enters https://myserver/index.html they will get the same page only secured in the latter case. I know of no way to capture the connection through apache.

Now if you want to do a Server Side Include on your pages and check for a https connection, you could. The overhead could be a problem though, since you would want to do it on every page.

--Jim

[Jay Cantwell]

Hello James....that prompts the question of what displays the security certificate box upon initiating a session with a secured server.....does something in SSL send this message to the user, or is it in the certificate passing the message (security box)......thanks