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.
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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 ...
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Do modern web browsers always send the web server's hostname in the SNI extension header?
When a web browser that supports Server Name Indication (SNI) connects to an HTTPS site, does it ALWAYS send the hostname in the SNI field?
That is, there is no way for a web browser to know if the ...
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cUrl for an HTTPS address/domain times out unless previously accessed from browser
I've lost a couple days to this problem and hope it sparks a thought from someone.
I am integrating several systems together using Powershell scripts. One of the two services I am connecting to (...
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Port 443 appears to be closed in Nmap scans even when there's no firewall
I was trying to diagnose a problem where any HTTPS request to my VPS returns with ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED. I'm using Let's Encrypt implemented on NGINX while the web server itself is a Node.js app.
The ...
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How to enable DNS over HTTPS for the public DNS route in EC2
I am working on a Facebook bot app. A requirements is to setup a webbook on my webserver to return a token, to validate my account.
I configured a micro instance (Ubuntu) and created a web server (...
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Sophos firewall default settings do not allow HTTPS from Java 6 clients
Our current (default) Sophos firewall (Apache reverse proxy) settings does not allow Java 6 clients to connect over HTTPS. The ssltest result shows that the reason is "Client does not support DH ...
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Tuning Apache KeepAlive Timeout for HTTPS
My website forces HTTPS everywhere and has an average first load time of 3-5 seconds. Thanks to caching, repeat load time is 0.8 seconds.
The SSL negotiation takes 150-300ms on my server, so I want ...
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Nginx SSL redirect for one specific page only
I read and followed this question in order to configure nginx to force SSL for one page (admin.php for XenForo), and it is working well for a few of the site administrators but is not for myself. I ...
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Can't open port 443 on AWS EC2 fresh instance
I created a fresh EC2 instance, this is the setup:
Security Group
Inbound rules
IP version
Type
Protocol
Port Range
Source
IPv4
HTTP
TCP
80
0.0.0.0/0
IPv6
HTTPS
TCP
443
::/0
IPv6
HTTP
TCP
80
::/0
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How to give OpenVPN profile files to users via the HTTPS?
I'm using Mikrotik Router as an OpenVPN server and I want to give the profile file to the users with HTTPS URL so they can import the file using URL in OpenVPN application on Android or IOS phones.
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Why a TCP connection fail faster on Linux closed ports than on Windows ones?
While trying the simple exploit described here I noticed that it doesn't works on Linux while it works on Windows (tried with several browsers).
Apparently this is because, on Linux, the operating ...
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Cannot get SSL working on Tomcat8.5
I had my Tomcat8 running fine in port 8080, but now I'm trying to enable https in 8443 and, even though logs look fine it doesn't work (not even in 8080 without https right now).
My sistem is Ubuntu ...
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Steps for setting up HTTPS using elastic beanstalk with a load balancer
I have recently used AWS elastic beanstalk to migrate my parse application server. Everything is working well with just plain HTTP, but I need more security so I've tried diving into the AWS ...
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curl: (1) Protocol "https" not supported or disabled in libcurl
I've a CentOS6 vps on which O trying to access https url through curl it gives not supported error
# curl https://google.com
curl: (1) Protocol "https" not supported or disabled in libcurl
Anyone ...
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SSL Proxying with mutual authentication
I have a bunch of backend servers each them should make https-requests. I want all my https traffic inspected and controled by few number of machines (many times fewer than server farm) - that's why I ...
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How do you fix Terminal Server when users are unable to surf to HTTPS websites?
One of the Terminal Servers has been plagued by an unusual HTTPS issue. After enough users have logged in and logged out, eventually users can no longer load HTTPS websites. It seems to only affect ...
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Outlook Anywhere not working through proxy with HTTPS inspection
I'm currently working at a customer's site where they use a web proxy with HTTPS inspection: for each HTTPS connection, the proxy acts as a man-in-the-middle by terminating the HTTPS channel, ...
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Apache suddenly very slow on http and faster on https
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I have Apache 2 running on ubuntu. There is a low usage on it and mostly being accessed for a web service URL from mobile apps. It was working fine until I installed SSL certificates. I ...
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How do I tell Nginx to skip rewrite some specific location?
This is what I do:
Because /api system has problem with HTTPS, I have to serve it under HTTP. The rest I force them to be in HTTPS.
However, in my django system, redirects gives me back http. It may ...
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Socket.io Flashsockets over HTTPS
We’re trying to get Socket.io flashsockets to work in Internet Explorer 9 over HTTPS/WSS. The flashsockets work over HTTP, but HTTPS is giving us problems. We’re using socket.io version 0.8.7 and ...
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SVN checkout returns 400 error
I'm trying to download the http://code.opencv.org/svn/opencv/trunk/ repository of all of the OpenCV source code - as specified in an OpenCV installation tutorial.
In the tutorial, the repository ...
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Access of K8s service within WSL2 + Docker Desktop from Linux machine over HTTPS
I've setup an authentication service in a Kubernetes cluster which lives in a Docker Desktop + WSL2 environment on a Windows 11 Pro machine.
It can be reached e.g. via CURL & PostMan requests from ...
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httpd on OpenBSD: How to Redirect URLs Ending In '.php'?
I am running an httpd(8) web server on OpenBSD. php-8.1.9 is used to serve php. In /etc/httpd.conf I have the following (example.com is a placeholder for the actual domain):
server "example.com&...
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How do I enable HTTPS on a single-instance elastic beanstalk environment running express.js?
I have a node.js server with express.js framework running on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. I've got the server working fine on http, but I need to update it to https. It's worth noting that the environment ...
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HAPROXY : reverse proxy with TLS termination
I'm a newbie with HAProxy, and I want to use it to redirects HTTPS incoming requests to my HTTP backends servers.
I know, how it is possible to do it with Nginx, like this :
#SSL for all
server {
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How to reverse proxy a Nodejs instance on a directory of an AWS lightsail website
I have a website and Nodejs application hosted on the same AWS lightsail instance such that I want the website to connect to use the data hosted by the Nodejs application. The API is hosted on port ...
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Proxy Error 502 "Error reading from remote server" Apache 2.4.18 Ubuntu with HTTPS into Docker container
I'm no expert and can't see what's the problem, but obviously this error is caused by a tiny detail it seems I can't debug. Any idea?
What I have:
I have multiple virtual hosts configured with Apache2 ...
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NGINX redirecting the wrong subdomains
I have setup my NGINX to only accept HTTPS traffic on port 443 and I want to redirect all non-HTTPS traffic from port 80 to HTTPS.
I also have multiple subdomains I want to manage independently.
I'm ...
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How can I allow http when on a specific subdomain with nginx? (HSTS)
I am trying to test my site on a stage site before making it live. Obviously it doesn't have the same certificate. When I try to going in with the testing.domain.com subdomain, I get this error in ...
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HTTPS site is not loading in NGINX web server
Below is my NGINX configuration. My website is deployed on AWS EC2 instance. I have checked the firewall settings and port 443 is open for public access.
I'm able to access my website from http://...
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Accessing servers in China via encrypted channels (like SSH, HTTPS, VPN) from outside
I've been approached by a potential customer to manage certain servers in Mainland China, for which I would need to have access to them via encrypted channels (like SSH/HTTPS/VPN).
While I am aware ...
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DLG_FLAGS_INVALID_CA and DLG_FLAGS_SEC_CERT_CN_INVALID
scenario is trying to connect via web browser to the IPMI of a new server I have; from Windows 10 either Internet Explorer 11 or Edge. Both report This site is not secure with the error being ...
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Strange IIS failure with specific certificate; any ideas?
We are 'Linux minded', so IIS and/or Windows is not my cup of tea, so please spare me. We have a webserver with 6 sites, one of this site is a multidomain site. About 100 domains resolve to the server'...
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cannot trust development https self-signed certificate in ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
I created a rest api project and I'm tring to access the https endpoint using curl like this:
$ dotnet new angular
$ curl -I -X GET 'https://localhost:5001/api/SampleData/WeatherForecasts'
curl: (60)...
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Nginx does not send SERVER CERTIFICATE after SERVER HELLO
I have an NGINX site that randomly produces connection failures during the TLS handshake. I investigated the issue using curl --trace and found that every other request times out because the server ...
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Nginx 443 taking too long to respond
I have checked that ufw is disabled. sudo lsof -iTCP -sTCP:LISTEN -P shows this:
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
sshd 1059 root 3u IPv4 ...
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Is there a way to change ciphers accepted by a Tomcat server running in AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
We've got our Tomcat application running in a load-balanced Beanstalk environment, and we've got HTTPS up and running. But I've found that if I try to connect to web services hosted by that ...
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Lighttpd reverse proxy HTTPS to another server on HTTP
I've a Lighttpd server running on HTTPS, and I want to have one subdirectory on the server act as a reverse proxy for a separate server that runs on HTTP. I've tried following guides on doing both ...
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How do I get HAProxy to not change the request URL?
I setting up HAProxy, task is very easy - redirection to two servers on port 8443. I did it. But I have one trouble when I write in browser address line my domain (xyz.domain.loc), it replace my ...
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Websocket Error in connection establishment: net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED 'wss://'
First I asked this question in stackoverflow, but it looks like a server issue more than coding problem. I am developing a project with Java EE and I have access to the server computer under a ...
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SSL/HTTPS connection establishment slow
I have a website on a virtual machine on Microsoft Azure. Since one week ago, I have a lot of new active users (about 5000) and all is really slow now. With the server I have, it should be really fast....
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Allow users to add their own domain name to my server and make it HTTPS (SSL)
I'm creating a website builder where the user can sign up, and it will create a subdomain someuser.sitebuilder.com. At the moment it's not SSL as I'm waiting for LetsEncrypt to launch the wildcard SSL ...
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Nginx proxy_pass loses headers when using http2
I've encoutered a problem with nginx losing headers to backend when using http2 protocol on nginx(regular http to Wildfly 10 backend). The below config works when taking the http2 parameter away and ...
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How can I redirect all domains to https in Varnish?
I'm using
Apache on port 8080
Nginx on 443
Varnish on 80
I don't want to change my varnish configuration every time when I add new domain to server.
I want to know if there is any regex or variable ...
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How to configure HSTS in Wildfly the proper way?
I want to set the HSTS header on Wildfly. I haven't found any specific method to do this, so my first approach would be setting it manually via an undertow filter:
<filters>
<response-...
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how to do an HTTPS request to an specific server?
I want to health check specific servers before adding them to a load balancer. The load balancer is just forwarding at the TCP level to the instances, the instances are handling the SSL handshake. The ...
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Spring Boot Apache SSL Reverse Proxy
I have a Spring Boot application that runs on a Amazon Linux server. I use Apache HTTP server as a proxy server for this application. Recently I installed Let's Encrypt SSL certificate and added a ...
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How can I compile Apache with an old vulnerabe version of OpenSSL for testing?
I am trying to compile the source of Apache-2.4.27 with custom version of openssl using the option --with-ssl="path to custom openssl directory" during config step itself. I am deliberately using ...
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Securing communication between an IIS reverse Proxy and Backend service with SSL/TLS on both servers
I am currently in the process of setting up an internet facing IIS reverse proxy that will forward HTTP requests to an internal API server. I was able to get the server to work with the connection ...
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Using Let's Encrypt certs on LAN with DNS redirection?
I'm trying to use existing LE certs with a server on my LAN. I exposed port 443 to get the certs for mine.example.com and https access works fine from the WAN.
However, I assumed (perhaps foolishly) ...
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