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Download xml.gz file with HttpsURLConnection
I am trying to download an xml.gz file from a remote server with HttpsURLConnection in java, but I am getting an empty response. Here is a sample of my code:
URL server = new URL("https://www.myurl....
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Secure iframe on unsecure page in a different domain
Our company is looking into allowing third party sites to use our online checkout system.
A client has stated that they would like to be able to use a lightbox style popup to display the checkout. ...
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Configure multiple keystores in JBoss depending on requested hostname
I have my J2EE application deployed into a JBossAS. My Application has to respond to two different hostnames (https://foo.com/myApp and https://bar.com/myApp). It is the same instance of the app ...
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Connect to self-signed HTTPS web services from Flex
In my project I need to connect to an intra-net web service but we need SSL connection between the two machines.
Because this is an intra-net site the certificate of the web service might be a self-...
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Are HTTPS headers encrypted?
When sending data over HTTPS, I know the content is encrypted, however I hear mixed answers about whether the headers are encrypted, or how much of the header is encrypted.
How much of HTTPS headers ...
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How to disable "Security Alert" window in Webbrowser control
I'm using Webbrowser control to login to HTTPS site with "untrusted certificate".
but I get popup such standart window "Security Alert" about untrusted certificate:
I have to find this window by title ...
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Will web browsers cache content over https
Will content requested over https still be cached by web browsers or do they consider this insecure behaviour? If this is the case is there anyway to tell them it's ok to cache?
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"CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY" error when posting via https
I am attempting to write an application that uses libCurl to post soap requests to a secure web service. This Windows application is built against libCurl version 7.19.0 which, in turn, is built ...
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SSL pages under ASP.NET MVC
How do I go about using HTTPS for some of the pages in my ASP.NET MVC based site?
Steve Sanderson has a pretty good tutorial on how to do this in a DRY way on Preview 4 at:
http://blog.codeville.net/...
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Is encrypting AJAX calls for authentication possible with jQuery?
I'm fairly new to the AJAX methodologies (I only recently discovered jQuery a short time ago). I am interested to know if there is anyway to authenticate a user on a PHP setup; securely.
Does jQuery ...
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Security implications of disabling the Common Name check for HTTPS
I'm going over some client code I've inherited for doing secure communication over HTTPS, and it seems that it's not checking the common name in the server certificate (eg. 'CN = "example.com&...
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Where should you enable SSL?
My last couple of projects have involved websites that sell a product/service and require a 'checkout' process in which users put in their credit card information and such. Obviously we got SSL ...
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Blocking https url's in a embedded gecko browser
I have an application in which a gecko browser is embedded. The application is crashing when I try to access any https url's because nss is not properly initialised at this point. The crash is in ...
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Rails SSL Requirement plugin -- shouldn't it check to see if you're in production mode before redirecting to https?
Take a look at the ssl_requirement plugin.
Shouldn't it check to see if you're in production mode? We're seeing a redirect to https in development mode, which seems odd. Or is that the normal ...
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How can I force users to access my page over HTTPS instead of HTTP?
I've got just one page that I want to force to be accessed as an HTTPS page (PHP on Apache). How do I do this without making the whole directory require HTTPS? Or, if you submit a form to an HTTPS ...
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What must I do to make content such as images served over HTTPS be cached client-side?
I am using Tomcat as a server and Internet Explorer 6 as a browser. A web page in our app has about 75 images. We are using SSL. It seems to be very slow at loading all the content. How can I ...
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What's a clean/simple way to ensure the security of a page?
Supposing you have a form that collects and submits sensitive information and you want to ensure it is never accessed via insecure (non-HTTPS) means, how might you best go about enforcing that policy?
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Best way in asp.net to force https for an entire site?
About 6 months ago I rolled out a site where every request needed to be over https. The only way at the time I could find to ensure that every request to a page was over https was to check it in the ...
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Response.Redirect with POST instead of Get?
We have the requirement to take a form submission and save some data, then redirect the user to a page offsite, but in redirecting, we need to "submit" a form with POST, not GET.
I was hoping there ...
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IIS7: HTTP->HTTPS Cleanly
Is there a clean way to redirect all attempts to going to an HTTP:// version of a site to its HTTPS:// equivalent?
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Testing HTTPS files with MAMP [closed]
I am running MAMP locally on my laptop, and I like to test as much as I can locally. Unfortunately, since I work on e-commerce stuff (PHP), I normally force ssl in most of the checkout forms and it ...
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Avoid traffic shaping by using ssh on port 443
I heard that if you use port 443 (the port usually used for https) for ssh, the encrypted packets look the same to your isp.
Could this be a way to avoid traffic shaping/throttling?
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How do you redirect HTTPS to HTTP?
How do you redirect HTTPS to HTTP?. That is, the opposite of what (seemingly) everyone teaches.
I have a server on HTTPS for which I paid an SSL certification for and a mirror for which I haven't and ...
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Options for Google Maps over SSL
We recently discovered that the Google Maps API does not play nicely with SSL. Fair enough, but what are some options for overcoming this that others have used effectively?
Will the Maps API work ...