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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Upgraded to Chrome 6, and now some SSL sites don't load
I recently auto-updated my laptop (Macbook Pro with 10.6, it it matters) to Chrome 6. My current employer has an annoying firewall that intercepts all incoming traffic, mainly to filter non-work ...
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Open stream over https in VLC and wildcard SSL certificate
I am wondering how to trust a certificate manually in VLC.
My purpose is to open a stream over https. gnutls returns an error: the common name of the certificate sent by the remote site is
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Can't download images from a website if the images use HTTPS but the website uses HTTP?
When I go to this website aiag.org, it seems to download the page, but not the images. I noticed that the page uses the HTTP protocol, but the images are referenced with the HTTPS protocol. This ...
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Data Encryption and Internet Speed
I was wondering, does encryption used over the Internet in a web browser noticeably slow down the speed of data transfer? I keep reading about stuff like HTTPS, but I always wonder if there's a speed ...
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Circumventing a manual HTML login page for "unclassified" websites (automation purposes, credentials known)
The IT department just made my life a little bit harder again: they introduced a manual HTML login page for all websites they have not "classified". This means that all the applications which try to ...
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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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How safe is chatting in iGoogle?
How safe is chatting in iGoogle - Chat in office? I am chatting over HTTPS.
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Looking for firefox plugin that redirects links to https for certain domain
There is one or two websites where which support both http and https where i want to use https, but where links, redirects, js redirects ... keep sending me to http-locations.
Do any of you know of a ...
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How to use Fiddler2 along with Windows 7 and HTTPs?
I have noticed that Fiddler2 does not work with https in windows 7 as in windows Xp. Probably resigning option does not work due to windows 7 better security.
When accessing https site with this ...
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How to easily create a SSL certificate and configure it in Apache2 in Mac OS X?
I'd like to use my Mac OS X with https for local development tests.
How can I easily make Apache2 respond to ssl, just for test proposes - I don't want a real certificate, just a fake to make local ...
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Wireless Hotspot Vulnerabilities on BBC Watchdog
I watched a program on the BBC last night that highlighted the risks of using any public wireless hotspot.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/29/wifi-watchdog-hotspot-security-vulnerable
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Eclipse on Ubuntu karmic hangs when using subclipse to connect to HTTPS repository
Software versions in use:
Eclipse Galileo
SVN Team Core Provider 1.6.5
Subversion client adapter 1.6.4.1
Subversion JavaHL 1.6.5
svn, version 1.6.5 (r38866)
Ubuntu karmic
When I select Checkout ...
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https over proxy safe from sniffing?
Apparently all the google ads in my gmail(https) are being filtered. I'm worried. So it means somehow the data pass through the company proxy and being filtered?
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What makes the address bar in IE turn green?
What aspect of a site's SSL certificate causes IE's address bar to turn green?
I'm working on a site which already uses SSL successfully, but am interested to know if there are different levels of ...
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What are the solutions to Ha.ckers.org challenge?
I was looking around to test my HTTP knowledge, and I found the ha.ckers.org challenges here and here
I spent lot of time trying to figure out how to find the captcha and how to change some cookies ...
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