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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Slow Gmail attachment download over HTTPS
It only affects Gmail. I have tested other HTTP, FTP and HTTPS websites and downloading is fine, at the exact same time the problem is affecting a Gmail attachment download.
The symptoms include ...
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Is there any proxy standard/software which encrypts the conneciton between client and proxy server?
I know of usual HTTP proxys and Socks proxys (Socks 4 / Socks 5 - where the main difference as far as I know is the support for DNS resolution via proxy).
Both variants more or less "pass the data ...
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Using Apache as a debug proxy for https traffic
I know that I should be using mitmproxy (or Charles, or Fiddler, or Burp Proxy), and that I can use Squid, but is it possible to use Apache to debug out going https traffic from my computer? That is, ...
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Securing traffic sent over HTTP, Client side [closed]
I am currently writing up on HTTP and HTTPS and the advantages of HTTPS. I was thinking, is it possible to securely send data to a server i.e login, which is just HTTP. The result I was thinking that ...
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Why does Chromium say every page has insecure content?
A lot of people seem to be having this problem, and few are getting concrete answers.
Why does Chromium say every page has insecure content?
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MAC OSX as server cannot be seen by dyndns address - router is blocking access
I have OSX running an RTC rational team concert essentially a Tomcat server on https port 9443.
In the OSX host file I have 127.0.0.1 mapped to thinkbigapps.dyndns.tv - such that On the mac i can in ...
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When I enter an address with https, Firefox (sometimes) changes it to http
What I did:
I visited https://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Main_Page (yes, there is a dot after TLD)
I got an SSL error (because the cert isn't valid for the domain name with dot)
I visited ...
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Why Gmail contains unencrypted resources. [closed]
I just reinstalled Google Chrome and when I go to Gmail the padlock in the Omnibox will change to yellow before I do anything. But before the reinstallation Chrome always show green padlock if I do ...
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Images not showing on website, seems to only happen for me
I am seeing very strange behavior with images not appearing on a site. Other people have reported being able to see them, but it seems that I am the only one that can't.
The site is at ...
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Can't Log into Facebook, Twitter and other https using Opera Browser
Using Opera on Ubuntu 12.04 (64bit), downloaded from opera website, installed with software center, I cannot log into any account using https with opera. I had the same issue on Ubuntu 10.04 and ...
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Tunneling HTTPS traffic via a PUTTY/SSL tunnel with SOCKS
I have configured a SOCKS ssh tunnel to a remote proxy, and set my Firefox to use localhost:<port> as a SOCKS proxy. My intention is to tunnel outgoing HTTP/S connections from my machine via a ...
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Using secure proxies with Google Chrome
Whenever I use a secure proxy with Google Chrome I get ERR_PROXY_CERTIFICATE_INVALID, I tried a lot of different scenarios and versions.
The certificate
I'm using a self-signed certificate:
openssl ...
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Downloading Microsoft Security Essentials via HTTPS
I want to download Microsoft Security Essentials on my brand new Windows 7 home PC. The official site presented to me is http://windows.microsoft.com/de-CH/windows/products/security-essentials, as I ...
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How to surf using https in all the googles services?
I would like to surf using HTTPS in all the services of google, the reader the searching etc. currently I set my searching using the https and gmail. Is there any way to configure chrome to search if ...
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How do I disable the warning Chrome gives if a security certificate is not trusted?
I want to know if it's possible to disable the warning you get in Chrome when you try to go to some HTTPS site that doesn't have a trusted certificate.
I have a few sites in my bookmarks that use ...
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HTTPS warning issue
I'm trying to help my friend fix an issue with her Windows laptop.
She recently did some virus scan and now each time she attempts to login to Hotmail or Yahoo or other sites with secure connection ...
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Why do I always get “Error 7 (net::ERR_TIMED_OUT): The operation timed out.” on Chrome?
Why do I always get:
"Error 7 (net::ERR_TIMED_OUT): The operation timed out."
in Chrome on https but works well on http?
No problem with the network because other browsers like firefox didn't ...
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SSL encryption for Android app [closed]
I am looking for a way to secure my information that I need to send from my Android phone to my home server.
I know that SSL can be used to encrypt a URL but what prevents the user from just doing ...
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Firefox automatically switching to https
I am using firefox 14 and lately, I have been observing this weird problem with my firefox. Everytime I put an address in address bar and hit return, https version of the site opens. This has no ...
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Make router forward HTTP and HTTPS traffic to external App
I use a Linksys WRT54GL router with DD-WRT v24-sp2 (10/10/09) std (SVN revision 13064) which I am trying to make forward all HTTP and HTTPS traffic to an external app called Fiddler (used as proxy) on ...
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Iptables - having trouble opening port 443
I am attempting to set up https, but I am having difficulty opening that port.
Nmap scan report for localhost (127.0.0.1)
Host is up (0.000073s latency).
PORT STATE SERVICE
443/tcp closed https
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Nginx HTTPS when only matching admin subfolder [closed]
I have managed to get all /admin requests redirected to https by:
server {
listen 80;
location /admin {
rewrite ^ https://$server_name$request_uri?$args permanent;
}
}
But ...
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Requesting an HTTPS URL with pear http_request fails. Why?
I am using Ubuntu with OpenSSL installed. When I request a normal URL with pear, it works fine, but when I request an https url, it doesn't work. Why?
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Firefox: Make thumbnails of https pages not grey?
Firefox now has a new quick dial page like Chrome and Opera. It shows thumbnails of frequently visited pages. However, for some of my pages, the thumbnails are grey (most notably Facebook, and Google ...
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SSH over local unix socket
I'm trying to make a tunneling application to use SSH over a HTTPS connection, with a custom client and server at each end, where the custom client opens a unix socket that can communicate with the ...
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Capture and Display Filters for HTTP/HTTPS using TCPDump or TShark
I am running CentOS v5.8 64bit. What are the correct capture and display filters to use in TCPDump or TShark to monitor and trace HTTP/HTTPS traffic similar to what is provided by HTTPWatch?
Also, ...
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Unable to open websites that use HTTPS on linux
I have the following network configuration:
My PC
192.168.1.20/24 uses 192.168.1.1/24 as a gateway.
Dlink-2760U router
with Local address 192.168.1.1/24 has a VPN connection open with the provider ...
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Force a browser to load the 'https' edition of a website, not the 'http'?
This is similar to this previous question, but I believe it's a bit different*.
Sites like GMail support a preference that pushes all traffic through the SSL edition of the site rather than the ...
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Force web address to go through HTTPS
At my work, http://twitter.com is blocked, but https://twitter is not. Is there any way to have all programs/browsers access this URL using the HTTPS protocol instead of HTTP?
This specifically ...
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Is login possible through https url?
Does the https://user:pass @ url:port work with https or only http? I'm looking at the guide to installing Janky (Hubot + Jenkins) and I put in the proper url, but when I use the url myself, I'm not ...
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Curl Couldn't resolve host for HTTPS
I am trying to use curl on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1. When I try to use URL with HTTPS it gives an error message "Couldn't resolve host". But for the same URL when tried with HTTP ...
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How can users bypass the “This connection is untrusted” page?
First, I don't think this is a repeat of other questions that sound similar (because it involves the same warning page).
Second, Browser information: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) ...
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Sniffing SSL Traffic with Wireshark Locally
I ahve an application that is submitting and recieving information via HTTPS. If I place wireshark on the same box and the client. Will I be able to decrypt all of the data within the communication ...
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Is it possible for my company to monitor my Gmail?
Since Gmail uses https, all the messages should be encrypted?
Here we assume my company does not have keystroke logger or random snapshot software.
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Privoxy https/socks5 proxy + Authentication
I have bought a paid https proxy to be able to surf the web securely... the proxy needs authentication and I can use it on windows 7 using Proxifier ( www.proxifier.com ) but in Linux there is no ...
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Firefox says self-signed HTTPS sites error - The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded
Recently Firefox has started telling me that any HTTPS sites which use self-signed certs have Invalid URLs, where as the exact same URLs work fine in Internet Explorer 9. Internet Explorer at least ...
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Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 update breaks SSL
Summary
After updating from 10.7.1 to 10.7.2, neither Safari nor Google Chrome can load GMail. Spinning Beachballs all around.
The problem isn't GMail; Firefox loads GMail just fine.
The problem ...
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How can I use curl with a SSL URL to get a 200 OK?
I'm trying to use curl to get the HTTP status of a GET request:
curl --insecure --silent --show-error --connect-timeout 1 -I https://host:8443/health
Note: I'm using the --insecure flag in this ...
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Origin of SSL identification string on certain HTTPS sites
Some SSL protected sites have a fancy identification string in the browser navigation bar. Where does it come from? Is it the "Common Name" field in the CSR?
Here's an example:
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Can't do Google UK searches with Firefox Search Box when HTTPS Everywhere is active
When HTTPS Everywhere 2.0.2 extension is active, searches in the built-in Firefox Search Box go to https://encrypted.google.com (instead of https://www.google.co.uk as desired). This means that I ...
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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 ...
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How to connect to a NON-HTTP (“custom protocol”) server via HTTPS
I need to install a piece of client software which connects to a custom server (not a http server) on a specific port. But my IT dept are implementing HTTPS and say I must connect via HTTPS.
How ...
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Redirect Apache SSL traffic to subdomain with a proper certificate
I currently have a server which has a DynDNS subdomain (let's call it foo.dyn.com). I also have a proper domain with a CNAME pointing to that subdomain (let's call it bar.baz.com). foo.dyn.com has a ...
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Importing a self-signed SSL certificate on MacOS
I generated a self-signed certificate with openssl and added it to my linux server. I then imported the certificate on my mac with Keychain Access into the System keychain using the settings "Always ...
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HTTPS hangs using SOCKS5 proxy over SSH tunnel
Using SecureCRT at work to connect via SSH to my home Mac using a SOCKS5 proxy (my company also has a corporate proxy). I am using Chrome and Firefox with this SOCKS proxy.
Regular browsing is quick, ...
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Log and debug/decrypt a windows application's HTTPS traffic
I've got a proprietary windows-only application that uses HTTPS to speak with a (also proprietary, undocumented) web service.
To ultimately be able to use the web service's functionality on my linux ...
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Accessing a web page through HTTPS linking to resources through HTTP in IE
I have a web site mostly access through regular HTTP and a login page running over a secure connection (HTTPS) for obvious security reasons (nobody likes to their multi-purpose duplicate passwords ...
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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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Watch streaming video via HTTP/HTTPS proxy
Is there any way to watch streaming video (especially from own3d.tv) via an HTTP proxy? I have a limited monthly quota, which I would like to circumvent, for all traffic that does not go through a ...
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How can I force Google Chrome to remember HTTPS credentials?
Google Chrome is a great browser for sure, though I still see bugs there. Some of them are really annoying: my Chrome (at my work computer) does not offer to remember HTTPS authentication data, and I ...
