HTTPS is everywhere these days, but not many people think that much about which cipher suites are considered safe. Cipher suites determines what encryption algorithms are used to secure the communication over HTTPS, and as time goes on older cipher… Read More ›
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Enabling HTTP/2 on NGINX – NGINX Tricks Part 3
As you might have heard, there’s a new version of HTTP out there that’s far superior to HTTP/1.1. I won’t go into what exactly has changed in HTTP/2, but it’s faster and more secure, and allows for some even more… Read More ›
Implementing HTTP 418 Errors on NGINX – NGINX Tricks Part 2
A year or so ago I got intrigued about how to “properly” implement custom HTTP errors on NGINX after watching this rather funny DEFCON talk. The speaker talks about returning “weird” HTTP codes since browsers usually seem to display anything… Read More ›
Redirecting IP Traffic to HTTPS – NGINX Tricks Part 1
Lately I had a peculiar issue, I wanted to secure a web server running NGINX with HTTPS using Let’s Encrypt, but almost all traffic to said web server request the web page using the IP address of the server, since… Read More ›
Getting started with Let’s Encrypt & Certbot – LE Series Part 1
I’ve been enjoying myself immensely playing around with Let’s Encrypt these last few days, and discovered a couple solution to common problems and issues, so I thought I’d make a small guide mostly for my own reference on how to… Read More ›