Re: [google-appengine] calling out the app engine team on ssl for custom domains

2011-09-26 Thread Richard Logwood
Hi Greg, Thanks for the insights. While I know everyone who tracks this issue would really appreciate an estimate of any kind, the lack of one raises the priority for implementing a custom domain SSL work around for some users. Given the discussion in this thread about CloudFlare and reverse

Re: [google-appengine] calling out the app engine team on ssl for custom domains

2011-09-23 Thread Gregory D'alesandre
Hey Guys, I'll try to answer as directly as possible. We want SSL on custom domains to work. We are working on getting it to work. We've been working on it for a very long time now. Amit, you said you feel as if there have been conflicting messages, while the timeframe has taken longer than

Re: [google-appengine] calling out the app engine team on ssl for custom domains

2011-09-23 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
Try this out: http://blog.cloudflare.com/ssl-on-custom-domains-for-appengine-and-other When our business is ready to launch, this is our intended plan for always-SSL for our app. Cloudflare does edge caching for all content too - possibly better than Google's (wholly undocumented and not

[google-appengine] calling out the app engine team on ssl for custom domains

2011-09-22 Thread Amir More
Hi (I apologize, it's a long one). I'm calling out the app engine team on how they've handled issue 792http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=792colspec=ID%20Type%20Component%20Status%20Stars%20Summary%20Language%20Priority%20Owner%20Log - ssl/https support on google apps

RE: [google-appengine] calling out the app engine team on ssl for custom domains

2011-09-22 Thread Brandon Wirtz
Amir, While I can certainly relate that a Lack Of SSL is a severe limitation of GAE, I also (not being a Google Employee) can say it is likely not GAE's fault. Google as a whole likely, but I very much suspect that because SSL works on appspot.com domains. When working in a large company

Re: [google-appengine] calling out the app engine team on ssl for custom domains

2011-09-22 Thread Amir More
Hi Brandon, Regarding your resolution of setting up a squid/proxy that forwards requests to https://*.appspot.com somewhere: Having all your traffic go through a single server on AWS or other VPS to proxy requests for google app engine is equivalent to buying a top of the line super-car,

RE: [google-appengine] calling out the app engine team on ssl for custom domains

2011-09-22 Thread Brandon Wirtz
I disagree. I would bet money that Putting a Squid in front of your app would make it faster. Page Level Caching and the ability to put your Image assets in cache are going to make things faster. Also I didn't say single there are plenty of solutions that would do PLC from multiple