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Securing Communications via Certificate Pinning in UWP

by Lee P Richardson

This blog entry looks at what certificate pinning is, why you'd want it, and how to implement it.

MEAN web development #9: Some last remarks

by Sander Rossel

The last in a series on MEAN web development.

Hosted WCF Service over HTTPS

by Alexandros Pappas

Example of a self hosted WCF service over HTTPS with transaction

MTC.Host. A Infrastructure to host and manage Windows Services

by gfazzola

In this article I will explain the implementation of an infrastructure to host and manage windows services in a practical and interactive way.As a practical example of the solution will be implemented a dynamic ip update client of DucDNS

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How to Copy the Certificate with PowerShell Core

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Possible problem with handshake when requesting from API

24 Mar 2024 by Pete O'Hanlon

What you haven't told us is what you are running this code from. If you are running it on Windows 11 then, chances are, you have TLS13 enabled. This is not supported on Windows Server 2012 R2. To test this, remove the ServicePointManager code,...

Possible problem with handshake when requesting from API

24 Mar 2024 by Fercap89

Hi, I'm making a request to an API, and I'm getting this error: "Inner: Authentication failed because the remote party sent a TLS alert: 'HandshakeFailure. Error: The SSL connection could not be established, see inner exception." I am working...

File Injection and Path Traversal Vulnerabilities

12 Mar 2024 by Jason Sultana

A look at some injection-style vulnerabilities

How to establish connection with API through username and password ?

2 Oct 2023 by Member 9346617

I want to connect with API and get the response in JSON format. I need to put the username and password to connect to API. While I am hitting the url in browser and putting the username and password, I am able to get the response. But while I am...

How to establish connection with API through username and password ?

28 Sep 2023 by OriginalGriff

You will have to go back to the site you got the API from and look / ask there: there is no "single rule" to handle logins that all API's must use.

"Message":"no API key found in request", "hint":"no `apikey` request header or url param was found."

29 Jul 2023 by Arisz7

I accidently delete my old deploy from vercel that it was working just fine, it's an spotify clone and it was perfect y tried to recover the project by deploying it again but when I tried to recover everything from my supabase database I was able...

Redirect .aspx page from http:// (non-secure) to https:// (secure) web site

29 Jan 2023 by kk2014

Hi All suppose i have two sites are https://test.com and http://test.com. Earlier, my files were on http://test.com (non-secure) now i have migrated them on https://test.com (secure). So now there are no files on http://test.com (non-secure). ...

Windows 10 // HTTPS konks out

5 Jan 2023 by C-P-User-3

The sequence... * All is well * X-Amount of time goes by * (X equals a few days, maybe a few weeks) * Suddenly, My browser cannot connect to HTTPS (note the "S") websites * My browser does properly connect to HTTP (no "S") websites * I try a...

encrypted proxy service

19 Dec 2022 by omid amin javaheri

salam Ali this is your answer have good time

Use of ob_start is emptying the session variable in PHP, why ?

20 Oct 2022 by Member 15627495

Hello ! just make the ob_start before session_start. PHP: session_start - Manual[^] this case is fixed when you know that ob_start() is a new buffer creation, like does session_start()... it's a conflict about buffer resources. ob_start() maje...

Use of ob_start is emptying the session variable in PHP, why ?

20 Oct 2022 by Satish Thakur 2022

Working with core php, Using ob_start with session is gets complicated. First Page Next Page ...

How can I implement tiny.cc post method to get short link in C# winform

15 Apr 2022 by Eng Mohamed Bassuny

I'm making a small "learning" program to shorten links from the "https://tiny.cc" service. But I'm new to using the "API" so I'm having a hard time understanding some points I have searched a lot and tried to read the explanation of the site ...

How to Copy the Certificate with PowerShell Core

21 Feb 2022 by Illya Reznykov

PowerShell script which copies certificate to another storage

Https redirection modifies url path

21 Dec 2021 by Member 15475112

Hi, I have been trying to convert my http web links to https using rewrite module. The redirection seems to partially work as the links are converted with https, but then the target url is not as expected. That is, the original url:...

services .svc not working on https

16 Nov 2021 by saxenaabhi6

I got a website working on http and https bothbut mywebsite.com/xyz.svc only works with http not with https.solution tried:added binding below: ...

.net core hosting with HTTPS on nginx with letsencrypt cert

3 Nov 2021 by TheBigBearNow

Hello all, I currently have my project running http without any issues. Now I am working on encrypting my traffic by using https. I have a certificate for my domain and I set up all the code and areas I thought were necessary to deploy it as...

How to login to website using Python-request module

17 Mar 2021 by Ray987

I want to reproduce the process of logging in to bestbuy.ca entirely through the python-requests module, but from all my attempts I've gotten http 4XX client-side errors (403 with the code below). Also, when I compare the http request headers...

TLS 1.2 does not work after project migration from 4.5.2 to 4.7.2

16 Mar 2021 by Nilesh vairat

I am working on a .net application which is migrated from 4.5.2 to 4.7.2 .net framework. After the migration I was testing my app for only TLS1.2 connectivity and the application breaks while downloading some images with https protocol. if I...

Nodejs - send POST request with https.request in a for loop without facing “connection ETIMEDOUT” error after awhile?

23 Nov 2020 by adamori

I need to send a post request to a form that is using 'https://' many times, as my script goes through a list of a lot of different words (the list is quite large). It works great only up to some point, and then it stops and I get the error: ...

Nodejs - send POST request with https.request in a for loop without facing “connection ETIMEDOUT” error after awhile?

23 Nov 2020 by Richard Deeming

Start by making line-reader work with await: node.js - Nodejs - read line by line from file, perform async action for each line and reusme - Stack Overflow[^]: import lineReader from 'line-reader'; function readLines(filename: string,...

Https TLS handshake man in the middle

23 Sep 2020 by j11codep

If the Client Hello request is somehow intercepted before it gets to the real server and this malicious server replies with it's own certificate (not sure if this is possible, like maybe the malicious server has an actual valid certificate issued...

Https TLS handshake man in the middle

23 Sep 2020 by Richard Deeming

This would require the attacker to have a valid certificate for the domain they're trying to intercept. There are generally two ways this can happen: A rogue or compromised CA. This tends to be caught fairly quickly, and that CA will be booted...

Help with trying to understand mtls, simple example

23 Sep 2020 by j11codep

I am trying to understand the problem that mtls is trying to solve. In the simplest scenario of a regular tls, the client encrypts the shared private key with the public key and sends it to the server. From here communication on both directions...

How to pass 3 parameters in http post method in VB

26 Aug 2020 by Aravindba

Hi, I have asp.net with vb web application,in that i need to use http post method with 3 parameters, one of the parametes in byte format.I am new to http post method in server side, i am famler with clint side json method. but to use in...

How to pass 3 parameters in http post method in VB

20 Aug 2020 by OriginalGriff

We can't help you: we have no idea what site you are trying to load data from, and the one you show isn't registered which might be the cause of your problem. We have no idea what value you are passing to it, or what values it expects. Start...

The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure

10 Jun 2020 by Member 13444435

Hello together, I hang unsuccessfully for days on this problem and not a single answer to different posts at different websites helped me so solve it. I`m working on a Windows 10 System and implementing with VisualStudio 2017. With AspNetCore I`ve implemented the following projects: 1.)...

The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure

10 Jun 2020 by rajesh2245977

Hi, Did you get any solution for this ? I am also facing similar issue on linux using docker. Regards, Rajesh

Connecting to SignalR Host

31 Jan 2020 by SohaibX

Hello,I'm pretty new on SignalR, I've Self-Hosted a signalR at http://localhost:8080Let's say my computer's IP is 192.15.15.15. I Need my client to connect to this host, with IP Address like http://192.15.15.15/signalr but when I try to connect I get the errorBad Request - Invalid...

API: response.content.readasasync<authenticateduser>() returns "null"

18 Jan 2020 by dnxit

You can use Json.net for deserializing your response, Using streams would give you better performance, Check this function below private static async Task> DeserializeOptimizedFromStreamCallAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken) { using (var client = new HttpClient()) ...

API: response.content.readasasync<authenticateduser>() returns "null"

18 Jan 2020 by Member 14575056

This line of code:await response.Content.ReadAsAsync(); returns "null", when it's supposed to return an with a Username and Password. I saw a similar problem here:Response.content.readasasync returns null[^], however, the answer provided did not help me. ...

Hosted WCF Service over HTTPS

27 May 2019 by Alexandros Pappas

Example of a self hosted WCF service over HTTPS with transaction

[Solved] could not create SSL/TLS secure channel

20 May 2019 by Kschuler

I've got a .Net 4.5 web api project that needs to send out an HttpWebRequest with a certificate. I'm able to get everything to work in Postman (Postman | API Development Environment[^]), but can't get my code to work. I keep getting this error: System.Net.WebException: 'The request was...

[Solved] could not create SSL/TLS secure channel

20 May 2019 by Kschuler

My coworker figured it out. Turns out our machines had defined a minimum key length that wasn't small enough for the third party that we are trying to hit. We had a min of 2048 and they were expecting 1024. It can be fixed by changing/adding the following registry setting: ...

[Solved] could not create SSL/TLS secure channel

16 May 2019 by #realJSOP

Try running Visual Studio as administrator.

The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure

26 Mar 2019 by Member 13444435

Hi Richard, this does only eliminate some exceptions, but I still get the exception that the remote certificate isn`t valid. If I start the Web.AuthServer and afterwards only the Web.ApiServer everything is fine. But the Web.ApiServer tries to get a SignalR-Connection to Web.ApiSwitch and if...

The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure

26 Mar 2019 by Richard Deeming

If you want to use a self-signed certificate, then you'll need to bypass the certificate validation. There are several suggestions in this StackOverflow thread[^]. For example: using (var httpClientHandler = new HttpClientHandler()) { // NB: You should make this more robust by actually...

OPENSSL deal with HTTP CONNECT method.

7 Nov 2018 by Yount_0701

HTTP has CONNECT / GET / POST ... methods. If my client program pass through a proxy and access the web. it looks like : my_client --> proxy --> web server. OPENSSL is a powerful lib to deal with HTTPS(SSL/TLS).I'm trying to use this lib to access the web server through the middle side proxy...

I should log in to a web server with https with login and password. I always get 401 error. Where do you think I'm wrong?

27 Aug 2018 by GMGM

let test = WDatiGlobali.LeaderWatch_Sito + "/dati_generali/PROGRAMMI/LEADER_WATCH_INVIO_MENU.aspx?CODICE_UTENTE_APP=LEADER_WATCH_ATTIVAZIONE_WEB_SERVICE&PASSWORD_UTENTE_APP=LEADER_WATCH_APP_PASSWORD&CODICE_UTENTE=" + login! + "&CODICE_PASSWORD=" + pass! +...

Utilizing Errors To Improve High Availability in Parallel API Deployments

25 May 2018 by gptankit

An approach to making better use of cluster error feedback

How do I use show http contect on https wordpress site on one page?

21 May 2018 by Richard Deeming

Your link returns a "page not found" error, and you didn't show us any code. But the general answer is simple: don't make your site insecure! Instead, use secure links for your weather forecast. If the site you're loading the weather forecast from doesn't support HTTPS, then badger them until...

How do I use show http contect on https wordpress site on one page?

21 May 2018 by Member 13834698

Hi, Im working on a website: hinckleymountaineering.club which is all https. I have 4 pages where weather forecasts are embedded using , but the source page is http, and currently doesn't show any content. An example url is https://hinckleymountaineering.club/snowdonia-forecast Can...

ATS configuraion on node.js with express.js

17 May 2018 by rikidev

Goodmorning I have a node.js server that must receive json calls from a node.js application that uses express to manage routers, the ios application makes calls to routers passing json values! My problem is that I can not configure the apple ATS! How can I do? below I entered both the code and...

Pass generic object dynamically

24 Apr 2018 by Richard Deeming

Use a non-generic method to convert the DataTable: public static List ConvertTableToList(this DataTable table, Type itemType) { List result = new List(); foreach (var row in table.AsEnumerable()) { object item =...

Pass generic object dynamically

24 Apr 2018 by Member 13790577

I am trying to dynamically show a table depending on what tableName user has selected from dropdown. I am passing a json object from my web Controller(.Net Core) so in order to do it, I am first converting my dataTable to list of objects using function public static List...

Protocol htpps is good idea?

18 Feb 2018 by RickZeeland

It's hard to find good advice if you are a .NET developer, things are extremely unclear and complicated, especially how to handle certificates. So I think it's best to avoid this on the development side and just use HTTP protocol. Let the web guys manage some sort of "reverse proxy server"...

Securing Communications via Certificate Pinning in UWP

5 Feb 2018 by Lee P Richardson

This blog entry looks at what certificate pinning is, why you'd want it, and how to implement it.

Wordpress site origin has been blocked by CORS policy: no 'access-control-allow-origin' after migrating site to SSL (https) certificate

28 Oct 2017 by Hitesh Rohilla

I have just migrated a WordPress website from HTTP to HTTPS and few pages are not migrated properly because the content is blocked due to CORS policy. the problem is two sources to qualify CORS policy error are from the same domain but just its different in security level one is HTTPS and...

Wordpress site origin has been blocked by CORS policy: no 'access-control-allow-origin' after migrating site to SSL (https) certificate

28 Oct 2017 by F-ES Sitecore

Don't have absolute links to resources (ie ones that have the domain in them too), use ones like '/wp-content/themes/academia/dist/fonts/montserrat/montserrat-regular-webfont.woff2' instead. That way it will use the same domain and protocol that the page requesting it is.

Configuring soapui ws client with https

6 Sep 2017 by tiwal

sorry , silly question. It seems that when I was specifying the wsdl url, i should have added the ".wsdl" extension ... By doing this the SoapUi client correctly built up the service interface. Sorry for asking

Self signed SSL certificate not working on local computer

18 Jul 2017 by RAHUL(10217975)

Hi All, I am using IIS 8.5, I created self signed certificate on server and named as mydomain.com and configured certificate to HTTPS bindings. When I am trying to browse website on server, link is working properly but same link when i am trying to access from my local pc it showing...

Self signed SSL certificate not working on local computer

18 Jul 2017 by RickZeeland

Maybe you can try this Powershell script: Script Self-signed certificate generator (PowerShell)[^]

Rest server response error 500

5 May 2017 by Member 10103170

Hi, I'm setting up a website to act as our API to our internal database. I think I'm going in the right direction but keep hitting a brick wall. Server code and my test routine below. Error2 = ProtocolError Any pointers to resolve would be greatly appreciated! Paul What I have tried: NOTE:...

Rest server response error 500

5 May 2017 by Member 10103170

The server code was missing the first line (stopped it from being accessed via a script..): _ _ _...

Rest server response error 500

5 May 2017 by Wessel Beulink

You have an error on your namespace you are using a fixed url: _ if you used dynamic the url should be: _ You should use dynamic url binding or change the...

Css file is not loading in https but it's working fine in http

3 Apr 2017 by JanardhanSharma

im trying to use a virtual keyboard on my textbox. Keyboard is working fine for http request but if the request is of https then abnormally system is not considering the css file. if the request is http request then following way of reference call is working fine.

Learn about code review in Bitbucket Cloud

1 Mar 2017 by Tim Pettersen

Fork a teammate's repository / Copy your fork and make a change to the repository / Create a pull request

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MTC.Host. A Infrastructure to host and manage Windows Services

10 Dec 2016 by gfazzola

In this article I will explain the implementation of an infrastructure to host and manage windows services in a practical and interactive way.As a practical example of the solution will be implemented a dynamic ip update client of DucDNS

How do I enable HTTPS for my wordpress site

20 Sep 2016 by Member 12750767

My company has a Wordpress site and we would like to have a green padlock for the url, unfortunately https://www.v2.com/blog is redirecting to http://What I have tried:I have already changed Site Url and Wordpress Url to https://www.v2.com/blog, reset all permalinks, I have even changed...

Site is redirected to https but need some with http

1 Sep 2016 by Member 12714999

Whole site is redirected to https but I need some pages to redirected to http, is this possible with web.config?I need following pages (packages.php and hotelonly.php) to redirect to http, as all my other pages are automatically redirected to https.I am trying to achive this with...

How do I set up a wordpress site wich is very secure + accessible only via password?

23 Aug 2016 by danielgreg

The goal is to have a simple Site (Wordpress) for company employees to retrieve information wich can be sensitive. The site is supposed to be online so it can me accessed from home, but needs to be excluded from every search engine. A friend told me this ain't that easy to do with less popular...

How do I set up a wordpress site wich is very secure + accessible only via password?

23 Aug 2016 by Richard MacCutchan

If you just want to share files then it is probably a good idea to use something like DropBox. You should also ensure all files are encrypted to provide extra security.

Securing BizTalk WCF Services

12 Aug 2016 by Manoj Reddy Ch

Securing BizTalk WCF Receive Locations with SSL and Client certificate authentication and authorization.

Redirects the user based on http or https protocol

4 Aug 2016 by Telstra

Hi,Our domain is in now http protocol. It will be going to change to https after some time. I wanted to do such a code if user type http://domainName then all relative link on that page would be redirected to http automatically. IF user type https://domainName then all relative link on that...

Redirects the user based on http or https protocol

4 Aug 2016 by F-ES Sitecore

What you need to do is redirect the initial http request rather than amending the links on the page, so if someone requests http://yoursite/url you redirect them to https://yoursite/url. That way all the links\images will be https by default (assuming you have written your site...

Redirects the user based on http or https protocol

4 Aug 2016 by Suvendu Shekhar Giri

I believe you are in the wrong direction. You don't need to change your code, neither JavaScript nor JQuery can help you in this regard. This is basically configuration stuffs.You need to configure your IIS to handle https requests. If you want your website to use both http and https...

Wcf service HTTPS support - silverlight OOB application

2 Aug 2016 by Gokul GRS

Project structure:-Two applications 1. To host silverlight (https://aa.com) 2. To host WCF services (application namely services under main web application)(https://aa.com/services)I hosted WCF services over HTTPS. while i am accessing these services using silverlight web...

Wcf service HTTPS support - silverlight OOB application

2 Aug 2016 by Gokul GRS

Quote:Problem is fixed. purely Certificate is the culprit. Due to expiration of certificate, the problem is occurs.

Connecting to SignalR Host

17 May 2016 by Rajesh Londhe

The local computer IP address is not accessible from any application running on same computer.If you have published the SignalR on IIS, then using the IP address you mentioned, it is possible to access the server in LAN.If you want to access "localhost" on same computer, then simply...

Web Technologies for Desktop Application Development

24 Apr 2016 by Maxim Komlev

Example of WebBrowser customization and http/https server on localhost as engine for cross-platform application based on web technologies.

Page is not redirecting on https but works fine on http while login.

4 Apr 2016 by chandrayog.2

Hi,Facing a small issue. I have a site which works fine on Http protocol. There was q requirement to run it on Https.As soon as I added Https binding the site stopped login.Scenario:Application is based on asp.net 3.5 version.Whenever I tried to login and enter my credentials on...

Question on WCF and basic authentication...

29 Mar 2016 by Sander Rossel

Hi all,So here's the deal, I'm trying to set up a WCF service which needs support for SOAP 1.2 and Basic Authentication (username + password, which must be validated against a custom database). The service will be consumed by a third party over the internet.I'm using Visual Studio 2015 with...

Question on WCF and basic authentication...

29 Mar 2016 by Sander Rossel

Alright, so I found my biggest problem. It's rather stupid.I was missing the services configuration... I remember that used to be generated in earlier versions of WCF.Anyway, with that in place I was able to fix it.Having Basic Authentication without HTTPS is impossible,...