In order to work with Facebook apps one needs to have an SSL certificate in order to have a secure hypertext transfer protocol (https). Facebook no longer allows apps to work on http and requires apps to utilize https.<\/p>\n
I’ve been doing a bit of shopping around considering that I will be utilizing Linode<\/a>\u00a0(cloud hosting provider) for the VPS and I needed an affordable option for the SSL certificate. Looking back at my regular hosting provider, hostgator<\/a>, I found that they get their certification through RapidSSL<\/a> and GEOTrust<\/a>. I wanted to go with GEOTrust but they no longer offered the $50\/year option so I then decided to take a closer look at RapidSSL. On their site they have the following ten reasons why one should purchase an SSL cert from them:<\/p>\n With those reasons, especially the warranty value, who would not want to try them out? I think RapidSSL is the solution for the need of SSL for the project portion of this thesis. Really silly to gather all of these things just to work with social platforms however when you work with social you have to be prepared for the surprises that the audience serves back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In order to work with Facebook apps one needs to have an SSL certificate in order to have a secure hypertext transfer protocol (https). Facebook no longer allows apps to work on http and requires apps to utilize https. I’ve…<\/p>\n\n