No SSL anymore? Part of your vB 5 strategy?

[AlexanderT]

Just noticed that you turned off SSL, which you introduced almost two years ago. Just a day after your vB 5 Gold launch. I guess SSL is not in fashion anymore any you look forward to more important things?

[digitalpoint]

Actually, I was wondering the same thing... I'd bet money it's because vB5 is so slow by itself they had to enable a ton of Varnish caching to get pages to load in *only* 20 seconds.

In fact, I just checked, it looks that way from the HTTP headers:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

	X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge,chrome=1


	Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT


	Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0


	Pragma: no-cache


	Vary: Accept-Encoding


	Content-Type: text/html


	Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 08:15:06 GMT


	[b]X-Varnish: 751002397 750989763[/b]


	Age: 1348


	[b]Via: 1.1 varnish[/b]


	Connection: keep-alive


	X-Cache: HIT


	X-Cache-nHIT: 78


	Set-Cookie: BIGipServervbulletin-[b]varnish1_POOL[/b]=3489665034.52514.0000; path=/

Why is that relevant? Varnish doesn't support SSL...

https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/ssl.html

[Wayne Luke]

Really no need for SSL in the forum anyway. Never was. The reason we were given was PCI compliance but we don't collect credit card information on the forums and limited personal information is requested.

[digitalpoint]

I thought SSL was required to use your guys Facebook app and that was the reason vbulletin.com went to SSL... Quite possible I could have dreamt that though.

But maybe that's why the Facebook app doesn't work now? https://apps.facebook.com/vbulletincom/

[beishe8]

I thought SSL was required to use your guys Facebook app and that was the reason vbulletin.com went to SSL... Quite possible I could have dreamt that though.

No,you haven't dreamt that.

[BirdOPrey5]

I thought SSL was required to use your guys Facebook app and that was the reason vbulletin.com went to SSL... Quite possible I could have dreamt that though. But maybe that's why the Facebook app doesn't work now? https://apps.facebook.com/vbulletincom/

The Facebook App doesn't work because there isn't one for VB5 yet.

The VB4 Facebook App requires SSL is available (on the URL it needs) but it does not require the entire forum use SSL. On my shared hosting the SSL URL is very ugly but the Facebook App doesn't care- would never use that as my real forum URL though.