SMBlog — 28 March 2011

I've Gone Encrypted

Courtesy of a few lines in a .htaccess file, I’ve converted my entire web site so that it is accessed via https only. All old URLs will still work; however, they’ll be rewritten to http form.

Here’s what a manual connection to the web server looks like now:

$ telnet www.cs.columbia.edu 80
Trying 128.59.11.206…
Connected to webcluster.cs.columbia.edu.
Escape character is ’^]’.
GET /~smb/ HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:58:03 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: https:///~smb/
Content-Length: 318
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
…

It’s taken me a while, but I’ve finally fulfilled the promise I made 14 months ago…

Let me know if there are any problems.

https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2011-03/2011-03-28.html