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Naereen / uLogMe

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https://Naereen.GitHub.io/uLogMe/

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Use HTTPS to serve the pages #10

Closed Naereen closed 7 years ago

Naereen commented 7 years ago

Even if uLogMe runs only locally, it could be nice to have an optional support to HTTPS, with an (untrusted) SSL certificate.

Naereen commented 7 years ago

Demo of the HTTPS server

New: the ulogme_serve.sh script is now opening a HTTPS server by default, to port 8443 (looks like 443, the default https:// port),
But everything else works the same.

Additional details?

In this screenshot, we see that firefox tells us a few things:

The page is not truly secure: normal, as the server certificate is generating locally, and so is not automatically trusted by your browser,
But the SSLeuth extension rate 8/10 the quality of the SSL connection: in fact, the SSL is perfect, except for the first issue.

One more trick?

The demo shows the https://ulogme:8443/ page, but it's just a trick:

First, edit your /etc/hosts file to add ulogme as an alias for localhost:

$ sudo nano /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost  # should already be there
127.0.0.1 ulogme    # added for https://github.com/Naereen/uLogMe/

Then, open the page https://ulogme:8443/ instead of https://localhost:8443/. That's it.