Can a link on a non-secure site send a user to a secure site

[alan]

Hi Bruce,

I want to create several related but separate sites.  I have been reading up on building a host exe with dll's for the related sites.  But, I also need to have a secure site that's related.

Can a link on the home page of a non-secure site send the user to a login screen on a secure site?  I'm guessing that, if its possible, it would open a new browser tab for the secure site?

Thanks,

Alan

[Bruce]

Hi Alan,

>> Can a link on the home page of a non-secure site send the user to a login screen on a secure site?

Absolutely. We link to ClarionShop (which is https) from our Capesoft site (which is http) all over the place.

the key thing to remember here though is that you will go to a new server. So there's no connection between the http site and the https site. No sharing of Session data or anything like that.

>> I'm guessing that, if its possible, it would open a new browser tab for the secure site?

you can _make_ it open in a new tab, but by default it just links over to that page in the same tab.

cheers
Bruce

[alan]

Thanks Bruce