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patch for telling users about https
Peter van Dijk <peter(at)openpanel.com>
2010-01-28 14:38:08 [ FULL ]
Hello,

when used on ports other than 80 or 443, users may have a hard time remembering
whether a website/service
expects HTTP or HTTPS. Recent apache mod_ssl versions give users attempting to
talk
HTTP to a HTTPS port an informative error.

http://hg.openpanel.com/pound-sslpatched/rev/90a2b1ae6bf4
is a patch providing
the same for Pound. I've implemented the error similarly to other http errors,
with
full configuration support. Other than the removal of some already-dead code
in http.c, I feel the patch is as minimal as possible.

The patch is also attached to this message.

Comments?

Kind regards,
Peter van Dijk
OpenPanel
Attachments:  
pound-sslerror.patch application/octet-stream 5601 Bytes

Re: [Pound Mailing List] patch for telling users about https
Peter van Dijk <peter(at)openpanel.com>
2010-01-28 14:54:59 [ FULL ]
On Jan 28, 2010, at 14:38 , Peter van Dijk wrote:
[...]

Apparently the list strips attachments :) See URL.

Cheers, Peter

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