It’s the weekend, it’s my birthday, and I’m taking time away from all of my various client and company projects and working on my things for the day. Yesterday, the Umbraco 4 was released. Great job Umbraco team and congratulations. Maybe one day I’ll be as lucky with one of the side projects that I’m working on. I spent a few minutes last night downloading the release, importing it into my Subversion repository, and then merging it with the web site that I had started. The merge went pretty smoothly. Now it’s time to go back to exploring what I perceive my needs to be and learning how to further extend Umbraco.

The first thing that comes to mind is that if I want to use Umbraco to support a commercial web site, there are parts of Umbraco that I want to be secured via SSL. For example, a payment screen for a product, the user registration screen, or the user login screen could all be protected using SSL. Is it possible to have a mixed HTTP/HTTPS site using Umbraco? Absolutely. I actually set up the infrastructure for supporting this in an earlier post, which I suggest that you read in case you haven’t. More...