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Questions tagged [https]

HTTPS stands for HTTP Secure and is a combination of HTTP and SSL/TLS (Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security) and is used to provide an encrypted connection to a website.

HTTPS connections are often used for payment transactions and for sensitive transactions in corporate systems. They are increasingly being used for social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to help prevent identity theft etc.

HTTPS on Wikipedia

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Migrating an SSL Certificate from one host to another during site migration

We are helping a new client migrate their site from a previous unreliable host, over to a new host (cloud based). They run an ecom site with an SSL Certificate (GeoTrust SSL). We plan to move their site for them and then just update the D.N.S to…
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IIS website http ok but https cannot find resource (status code 404)

Afternoon, I publish an API on domainA.com and have done for several months. *http:/domainA.com/service.svc takes me to the resource (c:\inetput\wwwroot\api) *https://domainA.com/service.svc overnight now cannot connect the same resource. Web site…
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Encrypt client connection with squid forward proxy using SSL

I'm setting up a Squid forward proxy and I'm wondering if I could configure Squid in such a way that the connection from my web browser to squid is https regardless of whether the connection from squid to the destination website is http or https. In…
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HAProxy not passing SSL traffic in TCP mode (unknown protocol)

I've got a HAProxy LB solution setup and working correctly. All HTTP traffic on port 80 is being passed through succesfully. I'm now trying to get SSL traffic to work (in TCP mode and on just one server for now) however I keep getting the following…
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Why does IE think that my certificate is invalid?

I have my chained certificate from Dreamhost set up and working for all browsers. I have 2 sites with 2 certs from dreamhost, example.com and sub.example.com. All browsers are fine with the certs on both sites, except IE6, 7, and 8 (on XP, haven't…
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WebSVN accept untrusted HTTPS certificate

I am using websvn with a remote repository. This repository uses https protocol. After having configured websvn I get on the websvn webpage: svn --non-interactive --config-dir /tmp list --xml --username '***' --password '***'…
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What are the benefits of a self signed certificate on a live site?

Are there any benefits of a self signed certificate on a live site? I know in IIS 7 you have the ability to self sign a certificate and I was wondering if using that as a precurser to buying one from a CA would be a good idea. Do you get the same…
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Why does firewall-cmd throws error "ALREADY_ENABLED" but is the port not listed when calling firewall-cmd --list-ports?

Using CentOS 7, I am trying to use firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=443/tcp --permanent to add 443 to my allowed ports. Unfortunately this throws error ALREADY_ENABLED: 443:tcp. But when I use firewall-cmd --list-ports it does not show in the…
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HSTS in Nginx: should the Strict-Transport-Security header be added in subdomain server blocks too?

Let's take the following nginx.conf configuration file with server blocks for example.com and subdomain.example.com: http { ... server { listen [::]:80 ipv6only=off default_server; server_name example.com; return 301…
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haproxy redirect custom http traffic to a custom https port

I wish to redirect my custom http port traffic to custom https port based on the port I receive traffic on I have multiple bind statements : bind 1.2.3.4:7777 bind 1.2.3.4:8888 bind 1.2.3.4:9999 ssl crt /etc/haporxy/somecert.crt What I've tried…
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How to debug slow server response time?

Using the method described here to measure server response time, I can see that time_appconnect, time_pretransfer, and time_starttransfer are extremely high, but only when accessing the website through HTTPS. For comparison, connecting to Google is…
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Nginx Embedded Variables - How do you get the domain name used in a request?

When using multiple domain names for one server, how do you get the domain name currently being used in a request? I'm using the embedded variables for Nginx in it's configuration file. I've set up OpenSSL and have a redirect that works fine for my…
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ssl certificates for *.subdomain.example.com

I plan on getting a wildcard certificate for my domain like *.example.com, but I've heard varying reports about whether it will also work with second-level subdomains like *.subdomain.example.com -- reports that it works in Firefox but not in other…
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Empty reply from server when trying to redirect HTTP to HTTPS in nginx as a reverse proxy for jenkins

I’m running Jenkins behind Nginx and I use Let’s Encrypt for the SSL Certificate. If I access the site via https://jenkins.mydomain.de/, everything works fine. But when I access it via http://jenkins.mydomain.de/, Firefox says “Connection was…
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How to edit hostname in https binding on IIS 7.5?

On Windows Server 2008 R2, the "Host name" box for editing the https binding is disabled. I'm unable to enable it so that I can enter the hostname for which to bind. The certificate "issued to" field is in *.example.com format. How does one enable…
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