Is it possible to have SSL certificate for IP address, not domain name? [closed]
According to this answer, it is possible, but rarely used. As for how to get it: I would tend to simply try and order one with the provider of your choice, and enter the IP address instead of a domain...
View ArticleHTTP Basic Authentication credentials passed in URL and encryption
Will the username and password be automatically SSL encrypted? Is the same true for GETs and POSTs Yes, yes yes. The entire communication (save for the DNS lookup if the IP for the hostname isn’t...
View ArticleIs GET data also encrypted in HTTPS?
The entire request is encrypted, including the URL, and even the command (GET). The only thing an intervening party such as a proxy server can glean is the destination address and port. Note, however,...
View ArticleHow to run Vue.js dev serve with https?
In the latest vuejs (as of May 7, 2018), you need to add a “vue.config.js” in the project root directory: vue.config.js: module.exports = { devServer: { open: process.platform === 'darwin', host:...
View ArticleWhat happens on the wire when a TLS / LDAP or TLS / HTTP connection is set up?
There are very few differences between SSL and TLS in the way they are used. There is, however, a fundamental difference between up-front establishment of SSL/TLS and the use of a command such as...
View ArticleWhat’s the de facto standard for a Reverse Proxy to tell the backend SSL is...
The proxy can add extra (or overwrite) headers to requests it receives and passes through to the back-end. These can be used to communicate information to the back-end. So far I’ve seen a couple used...
View ArticleReplay attacks for HTTPS requests
HTTPS is not replayable, the first server response in the handshake sequence includes a server-chosen random number. What Fiddler does is act as a proxy, meaning it intercepts your browser’s requests,...
View ArticleGradle Could not HEAD https://..pom > peer not authenticated
Change your repository syntax to one of the following repositories { jcenter { url "http://jcenter.bintray.com/" } } repositories { maven { url "http://repo1.maven.org/maven2" } } Current (2.1) gradle...
View ArticleHow do I disable HTTPS in ASP.NET Core 2.1 + Kestrel?
In the Startup.cs, remove the middleware app.UseHttpsRedirection();
View ArticleWhy do web browsers not support h2c (HTTP/2 without TLS)?
Technically There are several technical reasons why HTTP/2 is much better and easier to handle over HTTPS: Doing HTTP/2 negotiation in TLS with ALPN is much easier and doesn’t lose round-trips like...
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