Re: [users@httpd] How to serve https only? Is this correct?

2012-07-12 Thread Mark Montague
On July 12, 2012 12:20 , Nick Kew wrote: 1. An HTTPS proxy. Browser will warn you in no uncertain terms. You'd need a bit of social engineering: The browser won't warn you and you won't need social engineering if the certificate presented by the proxy is signed by a CA trusted by the user'

Re: [users@httpd] How to serve https only? Is this correct?

2012-07-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Nick Kew wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:32:01 -0400 > Mark Montague wrote: ... >> HTTPS makes it harder to do man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks, but MITM >> attacks are still possible against HTTPS. ... > Up to a point, Lord Copper. ... >> If I were in your situa

Re: [users@httpd] How to serve https only? Is this correct?

2012-07-12 Thread Nick Kew
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:32:01 -0400 Mark Montague wrote: > On July 12, 2012 11:03 , Tom Browder wrote: > > I like the "friendly" approach, but I made the statement. "I want to > > have NO http traffic on my site," because I saw in a post from a > > Mozilla Persona site a reference to another li

Re: [users@httpd] How to serve https only? Is this correct?

2012-07-12 Thread Mark Montague
On July 12, 2012 11:03 , Tom Browder wrote: I like the "friendly" approach, but I made the statement. "I want to have NO http traffic on my site," because I saw in a post from a Mozilla Persona site a reference to another link that there is a possibility of a man-in-the-middle attack using it.

Re: [users@httpd] How to serve https only? Is this correct?

2012-07-12 Thread Filipe Cifali
If you want no traffic, don't listen. Block on firewall w/ tcp-reject and don't use Apache to listen to http. A more "friendly" way is to redirect VIA firewall all --dport 80 to --dport 443. 2012/7/12 Tom Browder > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Mark Montague wrote: > > On July 12, 2012 8:0

Re: [users@httpd] How to serve https only? Is this correct?

2012-07-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Mark Montague wrote: > On July 12, 2012 8:02 , Tom Browder wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Nick Kew wrote: >>> On 12 Jul 2012, at 12:02, Tom Browder wrote: >>> I want to have NO http traffic on my site. Is this the correct way to... ... > Nick's

Re: [users@httpd] How to serve https only? Is this correct?

2012-07-12 Thread Mark Montague
On July 12, 2012 8:02 , Tom Browder wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Nick Kew wrote: On 12 Jul 2012, at 12:02, Tom Browder wrote: I want to have NO http traffic on my site. Is this the correct way to No. I see lots of mixed http/https setups, but no single solution for https only i

Re: [users@httpd] How to serve https only? Is this correct?

2012-07-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Nick Kew wrote: > > On 12 Jul 2012, at 12:02, Tom Browder wrote: > >> I want to have NO http traffic on my site. Is this the correct way to > > No. Thanks for the reply, Nick. I have a stack of Apache security books (as well as your modules book), but I am looki

Re: [users@httpd] How to serve https only? Is this correct?

2012-07-12 Thread Nick Kew
On 12 Jul 2012, at 12:02, Tom Browder wrote: > I want to have NO http traffic on my site. Is this the correct way to No. The Listen directive determines whether you serve HTTP traffic. What you have only affects how you respond to HTTP traffic once you have already accepted it. -- Nick Kew

[users@httpd] How to serve https only? Is this correct?

2012-07-12 Thread Tom Browder
I want to have NO http traffic on my site. Is this the correct way to ensure I serve everything on my site via https: ServerName tb.com ServerAlias *.tb.com Redirect permanent / https://tb.com/ ... Thanks so much. Best regards, -Tom