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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Why is SSH safer than HTTPS on direct connections to a Git Repository with Credentials
Well, consider that the credentials are stored in a non secure manner somewhere on the file-system (default options on Ubuntu). There are quite a few sites which tell you that using SSH is more secure ...
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How much information can my ISP see?
Is it possible for my ISP to see the passwords that I enter on websites and in chat programs? And what about SSL websites that start with https, do they encrypt my username and password before ...
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nginx http to https proxy with self-signed certificate
I have an nginx proxy to redirect http requests with a specified port to another https url.
Here is my configuration so far:
server {
listen 59848;
location / {
resolver 8.8.8.8;
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Is it possible to tunnel https traffic via ssh tunnel with standard ssh-programs?
Can I reroute the https traffic (of an svn repository) via ssh-tunnel.
The problem is that the the services that use https don't work if I just create one tunnel for listening with e.g.:
ssh -L ...
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Why are email transfers between mail servers often not encrypted?
Users can often choose if they want to access their email provider (such as Gmail) using a secure channel (e.g. using HTTPS).
However, to the best of my knowledge, when it comes to mail-server-to-...
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IE9: Permanently accept untrusted certificate
When accessing a website via HTTPS which has an untrusted certificate, Internet Explorer 9 always shows me the following error message:
Is there a way to import the certificate permanently, so that I ...
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Is there an HTTPS Everywhere add on for Chrome, MSIE or safari?
I really like this HTTPS Everywhere add-on for Firefox. But I tend to browser hop, so have similar HTTPS-preferring add-ons been released for the other major browsers?
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Chrome persistently redirecting to HTTPS for HTTP site
I'm building a site to replace an older site. The newer site currently is NOT HTTPS. However, the old site is HTTPS. I'm switching between the two sites by toggling an entry in my 'hosts' file.
I ...
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Chrome adds weird HTTPS:1 header to all requests
I've been getting a lot of weird errors on websites that relate to HTTPS. These sites works great in FF and IE, but fail to load in Chrome. It appears that though I'm requesting an unsecured URL (http)...
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Get a server's SSL/TLS certificate using "openssl s_client"
I am trying to get the SSL/TLS certificate for one of our load balancers (Netscaler) using:
openssl s_client -showcerts -connect lb.example.com:443
But it won't show me the certificate:
CONNECTED(...
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What is the modern day equivalent of Firesheep?
Firesheep came out on the scene in 2010 and rocked the world... and never made it to version 1.0. Mozilla has since released 15 major versions of Firefox and is incompatible with the extension. Is ...
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Does https encrypt URLs, too?
This is fairly easy.
If I go to https://webserver.com/someurl?a=b, will the someurl?a=b part be protected, or just the contents of the site?
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The certificate is not trusted because no issuer chain was provided
Could anyone explain the meaning of this error message in plain English?
Should I add an exception or I should not continue on this website?
Technical details: the URL is here, the browser is ...
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Firefox allow HTTP URLs (and not force HTTPS)
tl;dr I want to browse an http-based URL but Firefox will not let me.
A local network HTTP server is at http://host (port 80) and the corresponding HTTPS server is at https://host (port 443).
When I ...
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How can I get Chrome accepting self signed certificates?
I have a local REST-API service based on node/express and MongoDB.
I am planning to switch over from http to https.
The Clients are running on Windows Server 2012 R2 (Terminal-Server).
The REST-API is ...
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