Visiting "https" Web Site with IE 10

This section describes how IE (Internet Explorer) 10 shows a lock icon when you visit an 'https' Web site to provide you more security related information.

As I mentioned earlier in the book, Web browsers play very important roles in using HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) to secure Web communications. Now let's see how IE (Internet Explorer) 8, as a major Web browser, supports HTTPS.

1. Run IE 10 and go to Yahoo home page www.yahoo.com.

2. Click "Mail" in the Yahoo Sites menu.

3. After IE 10 finishing displaying the login page, look at the Web site address area. You will see that address starts with "https" and lock icon is displayed next to the address:

IE 10 Lock Icon on HTTPS Address
IE 10 Showing Lock Icon on HTTPS Address

What happened here was:

Lock icon in the Web address area indicates that this page is secured with HTTPS. If you click the lock icon, IE will provide you more security related information for this page. See next sections for more tutorials.

Last update: 2015.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)

 Introduction of HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)

Using HTTPS with IE (Internet Explorer) 10

Visiting "https" Web Site with IE 10

 Viewing Server Certificate Details in IE 10

 Viewing Server Certificate Path in IE 10

 Installing Server Certificate Permanently in IE 10

 Viewing Certificates in Certificate Stores in IE 10

 Listing of Trusted Root CA in IE 10

 Exporting Certificate to File from IE 10

 Saving Server Certificate to File with IE 10

 Deleting Certificates from IE 10

 IE 10 Supporting Multiple Certificate Paths

 IE 10 Reinstalling Root Certificates Automatically

 Windows Automatic Root Update Mechanism

 Using HTTPS with Chrome 40

 Using HTTPS with Firefox 35

 Perl Scripts Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 PHP Scripts Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 Java Programs Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 Certificate Stores and Certificate Console

 .NET Programs Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 CAcert.org - Root CA Offering Free Certificates

 PKI CA Administration - Issuing Certificates

 Digital Signature - Microsoft Word 2007

 Digital Signature - OpenOffice.org 3

 S/MIME and Email Security

 PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) Terminology

 Outdated Tutorials

 References

 PDF Printing Version