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Local HTTPS for Optimizely, IIS, and Kestrel using certificates (Pt 2)

In part 1 of this two-part blog series on securing your local development with HTTPS and Self-Signed Certificates, I described how to create a local self-signed certificate. In this part, I’ll explain how to use that certificate to safeguard your development environment and make it even more similar to QA & Production. Bind the certificate […]

Cyber security firewall interface protection concept HTTPS certificates. Businesswoman protecting herself from cyber attacks. Personal data security and banking. stock photo

Local HTTPS for Optimizely, IIS, and Kestrel using certificates (Pt 1)

Wasn’t it around 2006 when HTTPS started becoming popular? You’d go to a secure page and almost always see a message saying, “This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the insecure items?” 1 “Helpful” people online posted how to disable the error. Then browsers got smarter and just stopped […]

Dealing with Wildcard SSL Certificates on Azure and Kubernetes - Let's Encrypt and Azure Front Door

Dealing with Wildcard SSL Certificates on Azure and Kubernetes

It is almost certain that any DevOps approaches the challenges of implementing SSL certificates at some time. Of course, there are free certificates, such as the well-known Lets Encrypt. As with any free solution, it has a number of limitations, all the restrictions are detailed on the certificate provider page for you to read. Some […]

Tunneling out Sitecore 10.3 from a local machine containers for a global access

Tunneling out Sitecore 10.3 from a Local Machine Containers for a Global Access

I am experiencing an urgent request to prepare a Sitecore instance for the test of some external tools our prospect partners making demos for us. In good times, I’d, of course, spin up a proper PaaS / Kubernetes environment; however, for my particular task, that would be serious overkill; I occasionally don’t get access to […]

Enabling HTTPS for a Mule Application

Enabling HTTPS is a common task when developing HTTP based applications. With many platforms, such as Apache server, WebLogic, JBoss etc, it’s simply a matter of clicking a checkbox, or change one config line. For a Mule application, it takes a bit more finessing. There are plenty of posts and online resources discussing it. Yet […]

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TLS 1.2 and .NET Support: How to Avoid Connection Errors

I recently ran into an interesting issue when developing a connector for a third-party API. When trying to connect to the API endpoint, I received the following error message: “An error occurred while making the HTTP request to https://<API endpoint>. This could be due to the fact that the server certificate is not configured properly […]