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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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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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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Am I secure from network monitoring software if HTTPS is used?
I will be logging into my bank account and my personal email accounts at work. Its not banned at work, but I just don't want them to save/log a copy of whatever I do with these services. Especially my ...
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How to tell which resources are loaded “insecurely” with Chrome using https
I understand this is because I'm loading some stuff via http:// but does that mean a single http reference can't appear in the source? Even in examples like <a href="http://...">...</a>?
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HTTPS in public wireless network: is it ok
When I am using public WiFi to go to a secured site that uses HTTPS, is my data encrypted? Is it a lot more risky than when I am on a secured network ?
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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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Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 update breaks SSL
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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 to connect to an HTTPS WebDAV Folder on Windows 7?
I'm trying to connect to an HTTPS WebDAV folder on Windows 7. I go to a "Computer" Explorer window, right click, and click "Add a Network Location." I follow the prompts and get "The folder you ...
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Manual HTTP(S) 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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How safe is HTTPS? [closed]
It may be a lame question but still bothering me since long time. I have come across many web sites which are using HTTPS recently and they mention that all the financial transactions on their site ...
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Tracking information on HTTPS connection
My organization uses cyberoam firewall. They are monitoring all activities including my search text in Google, Wikipedia etc. So recently i changed to HTTPS versions and now using HTTPS connections of ...
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I cannot access https pages =(
For about a week now I can not access any sites with https:// in them, I have googled and tried every trick I can find with no luck.
Example site is hulu.com I can view it but I can not log in as ...
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How to test that SNI is supported by given webbrowser?
I just want to test this:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
on different webbrowsers. (if it's working or not)
I know I could Google HTTPS sites using the:
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How do add a certificate from a self-signed server to trusted certificates in Chrome?
I have a dedicated server with a wiki and want to secure it so nobody can read my articles by sniffing my pages.
I do not want to pay for a valid certificate so I created a self-signed certificate. ...
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Certificate error with Internet Explorer 9
one of my coworkers installed IE9 on their computer. They are now having trouble accessing some websites that once worked(and still work) in other browsers.
One example is this page: ...
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Are web browsers automatically using HTTPS when available?
Type xkcd.com in location bar, hit return -> https://xkcd.com.
But if I type http://xkcd.com instead, it does not change to HTTPS.
I've checked both URLs, and they're not using HSTS headers. I'm ...
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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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How to block specific HTTPS traffic?
According to HTTPS description:
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is a combination of
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) with SSL/TLS protocol. It provides
encrypted communication ...
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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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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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Why do some browsers ask for confirmation before following any HTTPS link?
I've seen many browsers, both mobile and desktop, show a warning dialog when I click on an HTTPS link. Just warning of the fact that this is an HTTPS link.
For example, my Nokia E75 asks "Opening a ...
