[RAS] https

['Christian Zimmermann']

The impact on CPU is minimal. Encryption is nothing compared to the 
building of the dynamic pages.

The SSL handshake may take some some clock time though, depending on the 
transmission speed. But the server uses HTTP keepalives, so it is only the 
initial connection that loses some time.

On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Ivan Kurmanov wrote:

> why would you want to have everything going via https? it's slower (for
> both server and the client), and it's more CPU-expensive.
>
> -i
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Christian Zimmermann <
> zimmermann at stlouisfed.org> wrote:
>
>> everything.
>>
>> I know, it is not in the agreement. I was just surprised to see this hard
>> coded. I guess this is just a matter of replacing every instance of http://with https://
>> .
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Ivan Kurmanov wrote:
>>
>>  Christian,
>>>
>>> What do you want to pass through https? Everything? Some screens? The
>>> login
>>> form data?
>>>
>>> Note: again, this was not included in the original agreement.
>>>
>>> -i
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Christian Zimmermann <
>>> zimmermann at stlouisfed.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Dan has put in place a SSL certificate for authors.repec.org. Thus
>>>> https://authors.repec.org/ is now a valid address. However, any link
>>>> within the site is hard-coded to http://authors.repec.org. That should
>>>> be
>>>> changed for the next code update.
>>>>
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>>>> Christian Zimmermann                          FIGUGEGL!
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>> Christian Zimmermann                          FIGUGEGL!
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Christian Zimmermann                          FIGUGEGL!
Economic Research
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
P.O. Box 442
St. Louis MO 63166-0442 USA
http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/