SSRS Report Viewer page hosted on HTTPS site, accessing SSRS Report server without SSL

Question

I have a scenario where an asp.net page is using the SSRS reportviewer control to display a report. we recently updated the IIS server to use an SSL certificate and now the same application has a HTTPS URL.

Is it now, necessary to setup SSL certificate on the SSRS Report Server box as well?

Or, can the (HTTPS)web application continue to use the (HTTP) SSRS Report Server URL?

Answer 1

It's probably far too late for this answer to help you, but yes, an SSL web app can communicate over standard HTTP to fetch reports. SSRS just uses a simple web service (an IIS site in SQL Server 2000 and a dedicated web server in 2008) so there aren't any real tricks involved.