Question about SSL to deal with Facebook https changes

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Please excuse me if this is a noob question, but my partner and I just started up our offline business last month, and are still learning.

Reading about the Facebook announcement that they will soon be requiring all app developers to use SSL, I'm wondering how this affects us and our custom Facebook Fan Page customers?

I'm not that knowledgeable about the hosting side of websites, so it's not clear to me how we implement it or what we're looking at in increased costs.

And does it mean we have to go back to our previous Fan Page customers and redo their pages to keep them working?

Can anyone advise, or point me to resources that are a bit more plain-english than the tech media releases?

Thanks,
Marie
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  • Hello Marie,

    If you are using facebook tabs or apps you will have to highly likely go and change a link in the admin panel to make them keep working as usually.

    if you are in one of the shared hosting companies that provide Shared SSL certificate, you won't need to pay anything but you will need to find the correct url. Search on google for "secure-facebook-ssl-hosting" to learn more.

    Cheers
  • If you are seriously going to be in the Facebook Fan Page business then pay the $50 a year and buy your domain its own SSL Certificate and pay the extra $2 a month for the dedicated IP.

    If you are doing custom Fan Page Tabs then host their Tab content on your server and you won't have to worry about the changes as you will have already handled them.

    Just know that any content that is from a non secure location when they are using https for their connection will generate a message for them to decide to display all content or only secure. If they choose only secure then your unsecure content won't display (i.e. your youtube video).

    Handle Youtube video in your https content file by placing an image as a link on the page that opens a javascript window and displays the video in the window. Then you will have no error message and you can supply all their content seamlessly.

    Martin Blakley
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    Question about SSL to deal with Facebook https changes

    Please excuse me if this is a noob question, but my partner and I just started up our offline business last month, and are still learning. Reading about the Facebook announcement that they will soon be requiring all app developers to use SSL, I'm wondering how this affects us and our custom Facebook Fan Page customers?