Waldron Digital's Tech Blog » extended validation http://blog.waldrondigital.com Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:32:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 GoDaddy Premium EV Certificate Hidden Web Beacon Link – FOUND! http://blog.waldrondigital.com/2009/10/23/godaddy-premium-ev-certificate-hidden-web-beacon-link/ http://blog.waldrondigital.com/2009/10/23/godaddy-premium-ev-certificate-hidden-web-beacon-link/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:45:39 +0000 Mike Waldron http://www.waldrondigital.com/?p=738 I don’t know why GoDaddy doesn’t publicize it’s hidden web beacon, they talk about it in the help section but you won’t find it anywhere.  I had to contact support twice to get the link below.  The web beacon or site seal is required for the EV green bar to appear in Internet Explorer 7.  The difference is the site seal is visible (and somewhat tacky IMHO) while the web beacon is NOT visible.

Here’s the link:

http://seal.godaddy.com/js/gdwebbeacon.js

or download it at my site here: GoDaddy Web Beacon

Usage is such:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://seal.godaddy.com/js/gdwebbeacon.js“></script>

NOTE: I’d recommend downloading the script and placing it local to your website to keep it segregated from GoDaddy’s website.  So your link would look like:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://www.mysite.com/myscripts/gdwebbeacon.js”></script>

While I was waiting for GoDaddy to respond, I figured out a hack to download the site seal and hide it… which I will share just for kicks:

<div id=”hiddenseal” style=”display:none”><script type=”text/javascript” src=”https://seal.godaddy.com/getSeal?sealID=1234″></script></div>

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