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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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Trying to make an https call through an ssh tunnel (to bypass a firewall)

I have a bastion server which has access to another server which is otherwise unavailable to the outside world. I am trying to make it so that I can make an https web call to hit an endpoint on the ...
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HTTPS (letsencrypt) squid proxy on a domain?

I'd like to make a HTTPS squid proxy (this kind) that can be used by anyone to access any site. This is not a reverse proxy, it is for the whole internet. For security reasons, IPs on my subnet should ...
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HSTS error due to substituted certificate

For about two months I have been unable to reach a website I frequent. Firefox displays this message: Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue Firefox detected a potential security threat and did ...
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htaccess Force All Users to https

I have a valid SSL certificate for my website and want to redirect all traffic to https. I have already modified htaccess previously to enable more legible URLs (things like www.site.com/words/that/...
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How to inspect HTTPS packets on my network?

I'd like to be able to inspect HTTPS traffic on my personal LAN to see what some closed source applications may be sending back to home base. I've heard that one viable way is to "man in the ...
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How to fix: "listen tcp :443: bind: permission denied" on mattermost using ansible

I am deploying Mattermost in my AWS environment using ansible. I am trying to set a secure https connection, but I keep getting this error when I go into the logs: {:"commands/server.go:112"...
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how to configure Piped for https on local network with self signed certificate?

I'm configuring Piped on my RPI home lab. In my router I created DNS records youtube.home, api.youtube.home and proxy.youtube.home with the IP of my RPI. I download Piped and execute the configure ...
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Internet Explorer 11 can’t access HTTPS on non standard port (8443)?

I have a road warrior who is accessing one of our servers from its IP address. For a few days he cannot access to a service which listen on 8443 https TCP port. HTTP version works well on port 8080. ...
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Log HTTP and HTTPS browser traffic, decrypting the latter

Is there a way that I can save all HTTP and HTTPS browser communications (including request, response, full headers and body) to files on my computer? The HTTPS communications must be saved decrypted....
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Redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS including subdomains

I'm trying to redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS including subdomains. I have the domain setup with FastComet on their Shared Hosting using cPanel. Some examples of how I like to redirect. http://www....
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Cannot access my router webpage because Chrome forces https

I cannot access my router webpage which is http://192.168.1.1 because it gets redirected to https://192.168.1.1 (gives me ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH). I know that google switched to https for ...
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Windows: SSL/TLS connection reset after ClientHello (ECONNRESET / write:errno=10054)

I'm using Windows Server 2012 as a workstation. The problem is that HTTPS connection initiated by node.js randomly fails. Probably this is system-wide issue and not only node is affected, but it ...
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Can't make https request from inside docker container, but it works fine on the host machine

In my application I need to make request from Docker container to my company's internal JIRA instance, but the requests always time out. I can make https requests to other sites from inside the ...
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How do we create an SSL certificate on a website hosted on a Mac OS Sonoma system using a third-party SSL provider?

We have a website that we are hosting from a MacBook. We would like to add an SSL certificate to the website itself. Is there a way to do this, or should we just add the SSL to the whole system? We ...
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Apache mod_rewrite working with http but not https

I am configuring an apache server to change URLs from [http://(IP)/users/testuser/test.html] to [http:/(IP)/~testuser/test.html] This works fine, as such RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/users/(.*)$...
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Apache2 ignores "authorization result of <RequireAny>: denied (no authenticated user yet)" and let random user to login

I am trying to figure out why Apache2 ignores "authorization result of : denied (no authenticated user yet)" and let random user to login. Apache vhost config is : <VirtualHost *:443> ...
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Unable to start Tomcat 10 with https connector

I have just installed tomcat 10 and tried to integrate a jks file that i have been using in a tomcat 9 installation with no issue, but i was unable to start the tomcat 10 with it. Can anyone please ...
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The Windows trusted the self-signed certificate but Google Chrome returned the NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID error

I created a self-signed Root CA certificate, then created an IA certificate signed with Root CA, and finally created a server certificate signed with IA certificate. These are the commands that I use: ...
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How to properly install SCR3500 card reader on mac - Mac OS X 10.6.8?

I am trying to login into some secured site and I am required to use SCR3500 card reader. I found and installed some drivers - http://support.identive-group.com/download_scm/download_scm.php?lang=en. ...
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https letsencrypt installation on windows with WAMP

Is possible to use letsencrypt with WAMP on a Windows 7? What are the steps of the complete installation process? I installed git for windows, then run a command in the cmd.exe to clone the client ...
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HTTPS works, but HTTP does not work (err_connection_refused error)

I have this weird problem in my laptops internet connection. I use this laptop for my day to day work + company work. With my company internet connection there are no issues, internet works fine (goes ...
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Edge can not visit Non-SSL url properly

When several months ago after "Edge" browser on my Win10 X64 machine updated itself to latest version, I began to meet a problem when visiting some websites in my favorites, at first I could ...
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Is this setup of an HTTPS/TLS/SSL certificate for an Asus RT-AC3200 router via Mac OS X 10.10 and Chrome correct?

Using the following links I believe I was able to create and install a certificate and authority for my router so that when I connect to it via HTTPS it won't give me the warning screen about the site ...
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What are the consequences of changing Gmail inline links from http to https?

When adding a link in a gmail email using the "Insert Link" button, I type in www.example.com but it is automatically changed to http://www.example.com When I click this http link on my ...
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How to use DuckDNS for multiple letsencrypt DNS challenges (normal + wildcard cert)

The tools Let's encrypt is the source of nearly all SSL/TLS certificates for HTTPS at the hobbyist level, offering automatic issuance and renewal of certificates, using challenges offered over HTTP or ...
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How do I redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS when ISP blocks port 80?

I am running a HTTPS web server at home but it has one key flaw: you can't connect to it using port 80. My ISP (Cox) blocked (incoming) port 80, there is nothing I can do about it, but luckily for me ...
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How to make Firefox use HTTPS by default but not block plain HTTP traffic if there is no other choice?

Is there a way to get Firefox to automatically visit the HTTPS site instead of the HTTP site, whenever possible? For instance, if I type web.archive.org into the address bar, with no search history, ...
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How do I set up HTTPS across my entire server?

I am running a few different websites on my server. a general webpage using Apache (port 80) Cockpit Web Console (port 9090) Home Assistant (port 8123) an open-source database system called Teable (...
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SSH through HTTPS without a proxy

Is it possible to ssh through HTTPS without a proxy, using normal tools, like ThinVNC does? The network is closed from the outside world, only access to websites is allowed, and that's only through a ...
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Are there well known HTTP-only sites?

Captive Wi-Fi portals suck. Often when I open a HTTP site in a browser (desktop Chrome or mobile Chrome), I get the captive portal, but with auto-completion and so quickly I connect again to Wi-Fi. ...
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Unable to cURL on some platforms, in particular DigitalOcean VPS

I am on Ubuntu 23.10 (GNU/Linux 6.5.0-27-generic x86_64) is not working, curl is 8.2.1 suspect is there is something on the machine. I have two Virtual Private Servers (VPS) based on Digital Ocean ...
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What happens between a TCP handshake and HTTP CONNECT?

When you have a system making HTTPS requests through a web proxy, my understanding is that there is the TCP handshake between the client and the proxy, then the client sends a HTTP CONNECT to ...
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How to ignore self-signed certificate error: net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID with Chrome?

I am trying to access an HTTPS site with Chrome and it is throwing my a self-signed certificate error: net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID. I have tried clicking the red lock/warning sign button in the ...
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SSL/HTTPS based on port instead of subdomain?

I have my home server setup with many docker services running on a VM. I have like 10+ services. Up till now I've had all of them running locally with no SSL authentication. I access them through a ...
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Make a site hosted in IIS server use https and access it within the intranet

I have a site hosted on my IIS server and I can access it on http:localhost. I made a self-signed certificate and added it to the site and can access it via https:\\localhost. I want the site to be ...
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How to force HTTP URLs to be rewritten to HTTPS when using curl command line

I'm using some public build scripts that call dependencies from URLs beginning with http://. These build scripts fail as the company firewall blocks the download of files over http and require ...
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I cannot change my Nginx configuration no matter what I try

I'm trying to create a subdomain for hosting files and no matter what I try, autoindex doesn't do anything. I can successfully redirect "public.example.com" to "example.com", but ...
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How to verify that you're using DNS over HTTPS (DoH) with Quad9 / other non Cloudflare DNS providers

I'm using pihole with an upstream DNS server of Quad9 DoH. The upstream DNS and the pihole are configured with docker via a docker-compose.yml file, with the upstream DoH server using the cloudflared ...
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Cannot reach domain via HTTPS on the same server behind a PfSense Firewall

I am hosting a platform on a server which has multiple domain names, let's say example.com and anotherexample.com. I am running a Spring Boot backend on that server, which uses the domain example.com ...
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Looking for a tool (possibly on Linux) that will allow me to make a manual HTTP or HTTPS request

I am looking for a tool (possibly on Linux) that will allow me to make a manual HTTP or HTTPS request. By manual, I really mean it: I should be able to feed it a text file which looks like POST /foo ...
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What is the difference between "CONNECT" and "GET HTTPS"?

Before getting to the real question, let me explain how my project works: for sake of simplicity, my proxy is on my laptop, where the client (my browser) also is; the remote server will be, for ...
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Configuring a custom dns and proxy setup

I have a smart-dns setup, Using dnsmasq as the dns server, which always resolves to my server ip address, for a given list of domains. I want a configure either a webserver or proxy program to listen ...
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How to increase range of a NVR using router whilst ipcam are hardcoded to NVR network and there's no way it seems to update them

I studied network a decade ago and I almost forgotten everything, not sure where to start to extend range of my NVR using a router. This is how the wireless IPCam look like, as I don't understand ...
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Certificate is valid, but website shown as not secure on some browsers

So I'm currently trying to set up a website over https. I have a webserver running Ubuntu and Apache2, and DNS records are set to direct example.com and www.example.com traffic. I have a valid ...
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HTTPs + proxy = VPN?

I've watched several videos about comparing proxies and vpn, and I'm still wondering some questions about their difference. As I know, VPN creates a secure tunnel with the client using the protocol (...
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Invalid SSL certificate for Wikimedia, only on my PC and only on LAN; resolves correctly on Wi-Fi

Since yesterday I'm having trouble with anything related to the https://upload.wikimedia.org/ URLs, they all give an ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID error. I tried some troubleshooting and I noticed that ...
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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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Certificate Authority works in Linux but fails in MacOS

I want to create a self-signed root certificate authority, such that the certificates signed by this CA are trusted by the OS which trusts the CA. After following a couple different guides, I managed ...
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Subversion Edge installing certificate on Windows deployment

I'm trying to get HTTPS to work on a new Collab.net Subversion Edge server deployed on a Windows environment. It currently serves the site in HTTPS but is using the default self-signed cert. I located ...
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Dropbox Client not syncing due to HTTPS inspection

Since my workplace introduced HTTPS traffic inspection as a security measure, the Dropbox client on my Ubuntu machine doesn't synchronize anymore. It doesn't, however, display an error message, ...

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