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My First EV SSL Journey
21.Aug.08 | Leave a Comment
I had my first experience with obtaining and installing an EV SSL (extended validation) certificate this week. I had expected the entire process to be much more grueling than it really was. Not that I’m complaining, but for the money you pay for these things… well, I expected to be worked over a bit more!
The [...]
Load Balancers
31.Jul.08 | Leave a Comment
I’m talking to Coyote Point and F5 about load balancing appliances. Anyone else I should talk to? This is a whole new world to me.
Long story short: I just need someting that’ll “pin” IIS sessions and handle SSL. I’d prefer an appliance so that I don’t have to think (much), but am open to other [...]
Lost Afternoon
01.Jul.08 | 1 Comment
Lost most of the afternoon today wrestling with the deployment of one of our web applications. Some new “client-specific” code had been developed in our dev environment and it was now time to move it out to QA (quality assurance) and then, hopefully, production.
The dev environment web server is still running Windows 2000 Server. [...]
IIS 6 Fix - Don’t Give Out the Internal IP Address
08.Nov.07 | 3 Comments
I got dinged on an external penetration test against one of my web servers last week. It was deemed a low priority, but it needed to be fixed. It seems that it was rather easy to get the internal IP address of the server:
Well oops! (nc = netcat in the illustration above)
It’s actually an easy [...]
Primal Scream
10.Oct.07 | 2 Comments
After 3 hours of flattening my forehead on my desk, I’m just about ready to give vent to a soothing primal scream.
I can not get IIS 5.1’s FTP server to function when behind a firewall, regardless of what sorts of port forwarding I do. I can get close: I could connect and authenticate, but no [...]
