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How do I use WebRequest to access an SSL encrypted site using HTTPS?

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You’re doing it the correct way but users may be providing urls to sites that have invalid SSL certs installed. You can ignore those cert problems if you put this line in before you make the actual web request: ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = new System.Net.Security.RemoteCertificateValidationCallback(AcceptAllCertifications); where AcceptAllCertifications is defined as public bool AcceptAllCertifications(object sender, System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate certification, System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Chain … Read more

Why not use HTTPS for everything?

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In addition to the other reasons (especially performance related) you can only host a single domain per IP address* when using HTTPS. A single server can support multiple domains in HTTP because the Server HTTP header lets the server know which domain to respond with. With HTTPS, the server must offer its certificate to the … Read more

Get angular-cli to ng serve over HTTPS

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Angular CLI 6+ I’ve updated my own projects so I figured I can now update this answer too. You’ll now put the path to your key and certificate in your angular.json file as follows: { “$schema”: “./node_modules/@angular/cli/lib/config/schema.json”, “projects”: { “<PROJECT-NAME>”: { “architect”: { “serve: { “options”: { “sslKey”: “<relative path from angular.json>/server.key”, “sslCert”: “<relative path … Read more

HTTPS connections over proxy servers

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TLS/SSL (The S in HTTPS) guarantees that there are no eavesdroppers between you and the server you are contacting, i.e. no proxies. Normally, you use CONNECT to open up a TCP connection through the proxy. In this case, the proxy will not be able to cache, read, or modify any requests/responses, and therefore be rather … Read more

How to handle invalid SSL certificates with Apache HttpClient? [duplicate]

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https://mms.nw.ru uses a self-signed certificate that’s not in the default trust manager set. To resolve the issue, do one of the following: Configure SSLContext with a TrustManager that accepts any certificate (see below). Configure SSLContext with an appropriate trust store that includes your certificate. Add the certificate for that site to the default Java trust … Read more

Is GET data also encrypted in HTTPS?

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The entire request is encrypted, including the URL, and even the command (GET). The only thing an intervening party such as a proxy server can glean is the destination address and port. Note, however, that the Client Hello packet of a TLS handshake can advertise the fully qualified domain name in plaintext via the SNI … Read more

How can I test https connections with Django as easily as I can non-https connections using ‘runserver’?

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It’s not as simple as the built in development server, but it’s not too hard to get something close using stunnel as an SSLifying middleman between your browser and the development server. Stunnel allows you to set up a lightweight server on your machine that accepts connections on a configured port, wraps them with SSL, … Read more