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Email site seal

POST https://www.digicert.com/services/v2/order/certificate/{{order_id}}/site-seal/email-seal

Use this endpoint to request an email with the site seal code for an order. DigiCert emails the code to the user associated with the API key in the header.

DigiCert Smart Seal

Secure Site and Secure Site Pro SSL/TLS certificates support the option to display a DigiCert Smart Seal on your website. The DigiCert Smart Seal is enabled for Secure Site and Secure Site Pro certificates when the seal_number parameter is set to a value of 18. To switch to a basic site seal, set the seal_number parameter to a value of 15 (Norton), 16 (GeoTrust), or 17 (Thawte).

Updating your site seal

You can set the size or brand of the site seal when you request an email with the site seal code. To change other site seal settings, you can use the Update site seal settings endpoint.

Some modifications, such as changing the size of the site seal, do not require you to reinstall the site seal code.* Changes automatically appear within two hours of submitting the update. However, if you modify the hover effect, you must reinstall the site seal code for those changes to take effect on your website.

Hover effect modifications include:

  • Using the Update site seal settings endpoint to enable or disable the Smart Seal hover effect (seal_hover).

  • Using the Smart Seal with the hover effect enabled, and then switching to a basic site seal (see DigiCert Smart Seal above).

Related topics

Note

*On March 25, 2021, DigiCert improved how CertCentral stores your site seal settings. Now, you can update most of the settings for your site seal without replacing the site seal code on your website (see Updating your site seal). This change affects all site seal codes you receive and implement after March 25, 2021.

For codes you received and implemented before March 25, 2021:

If you don’t change the settings for your site seal:

  • No action is required.

  • Your existing site seal code will continue to work as expected.

If you update the settings for your site seal via CertCentral or the Services API:

  • You must replace the site seal code on your website for those changes to appear.

  • After you replace the seal code on your website, you can update the settings for the seal by changing those settings within CertCentral, or by using the Update site seal settings endpoint.

Changes may take up to two hours to appear on websites that use the new seal code.

Example requests and responses

Path parameters

Name

Type

Description

order_id

string

ID of the order associated with the seal.

Request parameters

Name

Req/Opt

Type

Description

seal_hash

optional

string

Hash of the site seal associated with the order.

seal_number

optional

int

Number that identifies the type of seal to display.

Allowed values:

  • 15: Norton

  • 16: GeoTrust

  • 17: Thawte

  • 18: DigiCert

Note

  • Changing this setting updates the appearance of the site seal on any website that uses the site seal code.

  • To enable DigiCert Smart Seal features, the seal_number parameter must be set to a value of 18. Smart Seal features are only available for Secure Site and Secure Site Pro certificates.

seal_size

optional

string

Site seal size.

Allowed values:

  • s: Small

  • m: Medium

  • l: Large

Note: Changing this setting updates the appearance of the site seal on any website that uses the site seal code.

seal_color Deprecated *

optional

string

Color of the site seal text. *DigiCert has deprecated the seal_color parameter. We ignore this parameter in calls to the Email site seal endpoint.

seal_language Deprecated *

optional

string

Language of the site seal pop-up.

*DigiCert has deprecated the seal_language parameter. We ignore this parameter in calls to the Email site seal endpoint. See Set the language preference for the site seal information page.