Example sites with broken security certs [closed]

Revisiting this. Here’s a great online tool recently built: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssldb/analyze.html e.g. Paypal: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssldb/analyze.html?d=https://paypal.com There are more details when you drill into a specific server. When this question was asked I remember I was looking for resources I could use to build a tool that would automatically check if ssl was configured “properly” for a given … Read more

HTTP Cookies and Ajax requests over HTTPS

Ok, found the solution to the cookie problem. See XHR specs, jQuery docs and StackOverflow. The solution to have the cookies sent when switching protocol and/or subdomain is to set the withCredentials property to true. E.g. (using jQuery) $.ajax( { /* Setup the call */ xhrFields: { withCredentials: true } });

Safari keeps forcing HTTPS on localhost

I was able to solve this based on an answer from Ask Different. In short, closing Safari, then running the commands below, worked. sudo killall nsurlstoraged rm -f ~/Library/Cookies/HSTS.plist launchctl start /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.nsurlstoraged.plist Restarting Safari after running that and trying to go to http://localhost:3000 solved the problem and did not redirect to to https. Hopefully this … Read more