WBS web site now encrypted

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ic said:
In any case I regard WBS' website as being useless [I aint gonna be buying more bandwidth there] until they have SSL in place on all areas of the site that require logging-in as well as all areas once actually logged-in...:(
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actually if you log in at the helpdesk to check your bandwith you will see it is on ssl, the certificate checks out too, HTTPS so you can securley buy more bandwith, kthx
 
Someone has been doing a little tweaking over the long weekend. https://helpdesk.wbs.co.za is now secure. I hadn't tried it before but I see that the web mail is too, which is nice if you are going to be logging on from an internet cafe somewhere. Now you just have to worry about the keystroke logger on the system... :)

For those taliking about P2P shaping, try looking at News Articles, iBurst in the News, "Prices Pitched Low" from the Financial Mail of 10 December 2004.
 
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slimothy said:
actually if you log in at the helpdesk to check your bandwith you will see it is on ssl, the certificate checks out too, HTTPS so you can securley buy more bandwith, kthx
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Nope, not right now it is not - no SSL or padlock to be seen anywhere. kthx :p
 
Mercury said:
Someone has been doing a little tweaking over the long weekend. https://helpdesk.wbs.co.za is now secure. I hadn't tried it before but I see that the web mail is too, which is nice if you are going to be logging on from an internet cafe somewhere. Now you just have to worry about the keystroke logger on the system... :)

For those taliking about P2P shaping, try looking at News Articles, iBurst in the News, "Prices Pitched Low" from the Financial Mail of 10 December 2004.
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Sadly, I went to helpdesk.wbs.co.za just now [after Slimothy claimed SSL was in place] and whatever you guys saw is now gone - no more SSL, at least not in IE6 [which I am forced to use with WBS due to the pukey orange site with compulsory Flash which I refuse to install a plugin for in FireFox].

I expect that there is an uncontrolled SSL experiment on the loose @ WBS, now you see it, now you don't...
 
ic said:
I expect that there is an uncontrolled SSL experiment on the loose @ WBS, now you see it, now you don't...
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Quite possible but it worked in Mozilla this side a minute ago. Did you try the https link above? That might force the issue.
 
Mercury said:
Quite possible but it worked in Mozilla this side a minute ago. Did you try the https link above? That might force the issue.
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Ok, interesting, looks like they have SSL in place - provided you update your bookmark which I did not, actually just used IE6's autocomplete which used the http version - I assumed the site would redirect to https when required - not everyone needs to read encrypted FAQs...:D

Well anyway, thanks WBS for getting this sorted out, now please ditch the Flash in favour of xhtml1 (preferably against the strict dtd), and ditch the pukey orange in favour of a colour that doesn't make me want to hurl-Exorcist-style...;)
 
Looks like there are some bugs that WBS need to iron out, there are some instances where the IE6 browser address line stays https://*.wbs.co.za/* but the padlock is gone [could be some parts SSL others not], I need to have a look at what WBS are doing behind the scenes - looks like I am going to have to install the Flash pluggin - not sure if I can install it only for Mozilla1.7.6 and not Firefox1.0.3...if all else fails I will setup a VMware machine...
 
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