VS2008, Debugging, Local IIS Server vs Use Custom Web Server, SSL/https

Question

I am debugging a vs2008 web application project using the custom web server option and some of the pages are using https. I can debug https pages. Using iis7/Vista.

The way I'm doing it is:

• name of the self signed certificate is assigned to trucks
• custom server url: http://trucks
• hosts file: 127.0.0.1 trucks
• publish to http://trucks

I would think another way to do the same thing is to:

• make a self signed certificate assigned to localhost
• use the Local IIS Server option.

What is the difference between the two in terms of debugging and security?

The way I'm doing it now, I like not having localhost in the url, since http://trucks will more closely simulate the production environment. I also plan to implement custom url rewriting.

Answer 1

There is not difference in terms of debugging and security.

But IMO, your approach (using trucks) is the best way, because with a localhost certificate you could be mistakenly be using other certificate installed to other site in the same machine.