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Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server

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Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server

Overview of this book

Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 is a dynamic web publishing system with which you can build websites quickly and cost-efficiently. MCMS provides the administration, authoring, and data management functionality, and you provide the website interface, logic, and workflow. Once your website is up and running, your content contributors can add and edit content on their own, without the need to work with developers or the IT department. First time developers of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 face a relatively steep learning curve. Not only are they expected to be conversant in the Microsoft .NET Framework, they are also required to be familiar with the concepts of MCMS 2002. Many beginners to MCMS start out by looking at the example site that ships with the product; tweaking it, dissecting it and turning it inside out using the obscure code comments as markers. However, when it comes to starting their own website from scratch, many are baffled ? where do they begin? This book exists to answer that question; teaching the essential concepts of MCMS 2002 in a clear, straightforward and practical manner. Containing answers to some of the most asked questions in developer newsgroups, this book is a treasure trove of tricks and tips for solving the problems faced by MCMS developers. This is a unique resource focused exclusively on the needs of developers using MCMS. It doesn?t waste time and pages on user or administrator level information that is well covered in other documentation. It?s a distillation of practical experience that developers need to get results, fast. The authors carefully structured example project complements and extends the knowledge gained from an initial look at the examples that ship with MCMS.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server
Credits
About the Authors
Introduction

Adding SSL Security


There are many reasons you might want to secure traffic to and from your website using SSL. One reason is to secure the login credentials of your users. Another reason is that restricted areas of your website might contain confidential information. Without SSL security, HTTP traffic traveling between the server and your users is passed as unencrypted plain text and binary data, and can be intercepted by packet sniffers or other network applications. SSL encrypts the HTTP traffic to ensure that only two parties can send and read data in the current session: the server and the client.

There are many ways that SSL security can be added to an MCMS website. For example, you can secure your entire website simply by setting the Secure communications options on the Directory Security tab in IIS to require SSL. However, securing the entire site would mean longer page processing times and possible barriers for search robots trying to index the site. In most real-world scenarios...