SSL and FrontPage Forms

[Guest]

I created a couple of forms on a website that write to a text tile, submit to
a .csv file in the _private folder, and display a confirm page that posts
user information submitted through the form. the server on which the site is
hosted does have the FP server extensions installed. My client installed SSL
on the site, and now my forms don't work. The web host told us to reinstall
the server extensions through the web hosting control panel, and use an
absolute instead of relative url when linking to the forms. Neither solution
helped. How do I make the forms work correctly?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

The host must configure the FP extensions to be accessible via Port 443 in order for the forms to
work via https.

Also if the you are trying to keep the data secure, you do not want to store it in the site in a
text file, nor do you want to send it by email, unless the host is willing to install PGP and the
client would also have to install PGP on their PC. It is not free.

If you want to store the data on the server, it need to be stored in a database, which really should
be outside of the web space but under the hosting account, then you would use server-side scripting
to process and retrieve the data via https.

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