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Should websites with only global ip addresses be ssl? – Apache

The website operating only with global ip address（There is no domain name）.
Will this be indexed by search engines? Is it possible to introduce ssl on this site?
Since it is not currently set to https, we are worried that there may be a possibility of leakage of login information etc（I can not understand how much this risk is）.

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    Will this be indexed by search engines

    If they find your ip/port, yes.

    You can make a self signed certificate to encrypt the network traffic. You will get a warning when visiting the site though (cert not trusted).

    Buying a cert, which is trusted, should be possible but i don’t know any resellers.

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    Yes, it will be indexed. If you want to avoid this, there are several options. The defacto standard is to add a robots.txt file and define what you want with the robots exclusion standard.

    Yes, you can use SSL on a public IP address.

    The risk with using un-encrypted login is that the browser will send the login information as plain text. HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, all the information is sent over the internet in clear text form. This means someone can intercept and read the information.

    Adding SSL sends the hypertext as an encrypted message.

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    You can get an SSL certificate for an IP address; this will achieve two things.

    Firstly, it confirms to visitors that the IP address hasn’t been hijacked – it belongs to the organisation that bought the IP address, not evil_hax0r who has somehow hijacked that address.

    Secondly, it encrypts communication between visitor and server.

    You should not depend on being invisible in search engines – this strategy is called security through obscurity, and is widely discredited. There are all sorts of bots trawling the internet looking for vulnerable machines, and they will find you, even if you’re not in Google.

    Secondly, yes, Google will probably find you – if there’s a link to your IP address anywhere on the Internet, Google will find it. You can create a robots.txt to control what happens next.

    Finally, should you do this? Google thinks so. It’s free for many use cases.

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