We recently developed an e-commerce Drupal site using the popular module, Ubercart. Ubercart is fantastic as an e-commercie plugin for Drupal.  It's miles ahead of anything that's available for Joomla. However, one thing that Ubercart does not do natively is handle SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) pages. These are secure pages needed when accepting credit card payments on a website in order to properly protect and encrypt payment information given by the purchaser. You know you are on an SSL page when your browser address changes from http:// to https:// . 

In order to secure SSL pages for this site we were using a Drupal module called "Secure Pages"  However as it turned out, the module is laden with bugs and unresolved issues. The problem seems to lean in the direction of a conflict if you have Drupal clean URLs enabled. The problem we were experiencing with the Secure Pages module is that we set specific pages in the website to go https and that worked ok but then when returning to a regular unsecured page in the site the URL would not change back to http:// even though we had those pages excluded. Our requests for support in the Secure Pages issue cue went unanswered for a number of weeks and in fact were never answered by the developer.

At around this time a new module popped up called "Ubercart SSL" http://drupal.org/project/uc_ssl . Plain and simple this module just works and did what we expected it to do. In addition we requested to have the admin area of Ubercart protected with SSL as well and the developer responded withing a few days and updated the module to handle this functionality. Finding the Ubercart SSL module was a huge sigh of relief as Secure Pages was not working as expected.