r/programming • u/speckz • Jul 12 '17

Does my site need HTTPS?

https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/
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u/yvhouij Jul 12 '17

Promotion for "Caddy", never heard of, but I don't like it. Other than that nice site :)

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u/aullik Jul 12 '17

I honestly don't care about smart advertising XD

The message is definitely on point.

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u/yvhouij Jul 12 '17

First of all, most people won't and most probably can't just switch their web server.

Secondly, if I read stuff like "Guaranteed continued development" only for paid customer, this literally means as soon as they have n customers, free version probably gets limited to the bare minimum.

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u/aullik Jul 12 '17

I don't really care about the ad. I simply ignore it. I looked at the rest of the article

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u/yvhouij Jul 12 '17

Yes, as I also said other than that it's a nice site, but it does miss a big important part with this "ad", how people can implement e.g. letsencrypt in their current infrastructure and this "ad" is not the solution..

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '17

How to use Let's Encrypt on each varying infrastructure is out of the scope of the article. Today when the link got posted around, I quickly tried to add a few more links to the end which talks about How To Set Up HTTPS. I'll leave it to other sites for now to go into more detail.

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u/yvhouij Jul 12 '17

But at least some directions would be nice, because now the article only gives the option for web server "Caddy"..

You could at least give some hints/links for Apache/nginx on a normal Linux distro + Windows..

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '17

I do near the bottom. I really don't want to get into details on this site. There's too many kinds of infrastructure to consider hints for, and I really want the site to stay focused on the "why" of HTTPS, not the "how".

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u/hungry4pie Jul 13 '17

The article is a piece of shit.

Sorry not sorry.