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I ran into this issue when investigating a question of the client I’am working for right now. The issue came along when we wanted to combine a MCMS (Microsoft Content Management Server) application with a custom piece of software. This custom software should be included in a CMS Template. In CMS a custom channel has to be created and this channel serves as a host for postings based on the CMS template for the custom software…. still with me?

One of the requirements was that the custom software should be accessible only through SSL. So the need of securing one CMS Channel with SSL was born. A short cry for help accross my firm pointed me in the right direction. Steve Gossner (The CMS Guru at the moment). He seems to have created a solution (april 2004). When reviewing the code everything comes clear and makes sense. I already have experience in creating HttpHandlers and -Modules, so I get the concept of this solution. The next challenge is to plumb it all together with CMS on .NET 2.0.

The second part of the solutions is to create a custom channel property. The following link shows an article of Andrew Connell explaining how to create custom properties on CMS channels (section "Limitations of MCMS Custom Properties")

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