On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Shannon Ahern Ikeda wrote:

> Hi there-
>
> I am trying to configure the URL to the web archive with https, but it
> keeps telling me that doing so makes my URL invalid for CGI?? I'm on NT4,
> and these lists have been running great for months. However, we have just
> enabled SSL on this list, and I don't want to make all the users type an
> "s" after getting the error when they try to access the archive.

The 95/98 GUI also will not accept http://site:port/dir type URLs -- this
is not good IMHO -- I've not tried it with the Unix/Linux version as the
problem might just be in the GUI configuration client.

>
> Any ideas why I can't jusy change the URL in the configuration?
>
> TIA,
>
> Shannon
>
> On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:31:27 +0100, Eric Thomas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >You can enable the use of SSL by changing the URL to wa in your LISTSERV
> >configuration to https://.../wa. There is no way to apply the change to
> certain
> >transactions only - as you said, there is no clean-cut line between things
> that
> >need or do not need encryption.
> >
> >  Eric
>