SSL Certificate Color Change in Address Basr

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  1. Hi,
    I have just installed SSL Quick Certificate from Discount Asp site. It seems that things have been installed accordingly. Now I wonder that how to change the color of address bar to green in certain pages of my site, such as Login Page, Checkout Page, Register Page. Plus how to add some icon etc to address bar as well, such as lock image.
    Moreover, which image to use to notify user that this site is a secure site using SSL certificate, Such as GeoTrust, RapidSSL.
    Please help me, because I'm totaly nill in this area. Thanks
     
  2. Maybe you mean this:

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    This is a screenshot of the address bar in Chrome 6 when I've browsed to an SSL secured page in my DASP hosted web application. As far as I know, only Chrome colourizes the address bar to give an indicator of whether a site is SSL secured and colours the URL in red when there is a problem with the sites' SSL certificate. This behaviour is automatic.

    Other browsers like IE, FF etc do different things but their behaviour is automatic too.
     
  3. ...I used to do this in classic ASP with Verisign but haven't done it in years so I'll offer my best advice, hopefully someone else will chime in.
    With most all browsers the address bar will turn Green if the Cert is verified signed.
    There is an on-going problem with allowing developers to change the color via code.
    My advice is to check with whoever you got the Certificate from, they should have examples, as Verisign does for Developers.
    All the best,
    Mark
     
  4. After a little more testing I see the IE8 address bar remains uncolored until there is a problem with the certificate, then it turns red.
     
  5. ...I'll try and look into this but there apparently are reasons why IE8 doesn't change color with some certificates.
    This is a shot from IE9 but it works this way in both 8 and 9 for me:
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  6. You're right Mark - the IE8 address bar is uncoloured for my SSL DASP hosted pages and coloured green for pluralsight SSL pages.
     
  7. mjp

    mjp

    Here you go.
     
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