Would it be possible to have an option in IPB 4.0 where a user can choose to use your site including IPB Chat under full ssl encryption ?
Lots of sites offer this now, Facebook is one among very many, and its an option I would really like to offer my members

You can set the entire site to use SSL - just change the protocol in the base URL in conf_global.php to https://

Yes I know you can, but thats not optional and it falls down as soon as a user enters IP Chat

Also, not all members want to use ssl so as per request, a choice would be good as is offerd by lots of other sites :smile:

You can set the entire site to use SSL - just change the protocol in the base URL in conf_global.php to https://

By 'base URL' do you mean the $INFO['board_url'] ?

By 'base URL' do you mean the $INFO['board_url'] ?

Yup.

That's not a good solution. Doing this we get all css inside the page :(

Now that SPDY is nearby, ssl for all suite should be taken care :)

Thanks

We were once able to mod this into our community and ran for several years with the option for members to switch between ssl or non ssl if they wanted with a click of the mouse at the top of the page where we displayed a small padlock icon too that would lock and unlock depend on their http choice, but then invision did an upgrade and when trying to implement it again we were told it wasn't only not possible but apparently never had been but history tells otherwise for our community.

Agreed again as this is something I have been asking for to be in the settings for years now and other forum software has had it for just as long.

Might be of use to you,

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I just run my forums universally under HTTPS without issues now though.

The next version of IP.Chat service will always use SSL for all clients.

We were once able to mod this into our community and ran for several years with the option for members to switch between ssl or non ssl if they wanted with a click of the mouse at the top of the page where we displayed a small padlock icon too that would lock and unlock depend on their http choice, but then invision did an upgrade and when trying to implement it again we were told it wasn't only not possible but apparently never had been but history tells otherwise for our community.

Agreed again as this is something I have been asking for to be in the settings for years now and other forum software has had it for just as long.

I've edited my conf_global.php to allow either but it falls down slightly in a few places due to server paths and urls

The next version of IP.Chat service will always use SSL for all clients.

Thats great to hear but doesn't actually answer my question of whether optional SSL will be implemented or even considered in IPb 4.0
As I already said, lots of other sites already offer this option, you can toggle SSL on or off in your account at facebook etc and I'd really like to be able to offer my members the same choice, even more so now that IP Chat is going to be SSL :smile: