Question:

HTTPS encryptes HTTP, right? Does the encryption cost extra bandwidth? Will an HTTPS page take longer to load (more bytes to transfer) as a HTTP page?

I'm on very limited upstream speed, so very byte counts :)

nope, it won't, at least I don't think :D, https just adds an extra layer of security using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), if it does, which I don't think it does, take extra bandwidth, it wouldn't be noticeable, only 1 or 2k max :)

Thanks!

But 1 or 2K huh? That nearly 10 percent of the upload stream I've got. Now that noticable :) But security usualy will cost ya, so, I'll have to go for SSL.

solution: get a faster ISP, hehehe :)

I would love to but,

The DSL market is seperated in two site here, consumer and business. A consumer account is fairly cheap, but has slow upstream speeds, max 256 kbit. The faster (business DSL) accounts that can give you just about any up/downstream speed you want are very expensive. I mean really expensive.

I don't know a way to bundle two line together, at least not for the upstream part, but if anyone knows a solution for it, that might be the way to resolve my little problem.

Man, am I jealous of BearCat. Wish I lived in the basements of my ISP :)

i set up ssl on one of our customer pages for work and ssl takes up a bit more bandwidth, but nothing too intensive. if i were to visit our non-encrypted version versus our encrypted ones, pageloads are about 2-3 seconds faster.

Hmm,

And what's that on a lifetime, right? :)

Thanks, now if I only the certificate services on my Windows.NET 2003 RC1. ut then again, a few more hours, and I'm ready to install RC2, and who knows, maybe they fixed it!