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What makes the address bar in IE turn green?

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Mar 15, 202613018 views
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What aspect of a site's SSL certificate causes IE's address bar to turn green? I'm working on a site which already uses SSL successfully, but am interested to know if there are different levels of certificate.

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Yes, it is a different level of certificate, as you say. It's green when it is an Extended Validation Certificate. See Extended Validation Certificate at Wikipedia: "[...] a special type of X.509 certificate which requires more extensive investigati…

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