[PLUG] SSL versus wikispam .
Keith Lofstrom
keithl at kl-ic.com
Mon Mar 30 20:43:23 UTC 2009
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:43:48PM -0700, Jason Dagit wrote:
>
> I like your suggestion, but I have also seen the use of SSL as a way
> to deter wiki spam bots. I don't really understand why using https
> instead of http deters bots, it seems like the author could easily
> update the bot to support SSL but a friend of mine put his personal
> mediawiki instance behind https and it stopped all the spammers.
>
> Anyway, just a thought. I don't really know if this suggestion is
> appropriate for the wiki.
That's an interesting idea. pdxlinux.org would need a cert, or it
would look untrustworthy. On Feb 25 Joey Pruett suggested:
> rapidsslonline.com is pretty reasonable. 5 year for $69
I looked at that site:
http://www.rapidsslonline.com/rapidssl-certificates.php
... for a "single root certificate". I will have to learn what
that means and how it applies to a site. Does that certify all
pages https://www.pdxlinux.org/* ?
Keith
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