A Treasure Trove of Technology Tidbits
Today, I needed to fill out an online web form, and was very frustrated that it was setup to disallow copy and paste. Why would I want to type field values manually, especially important ones, when I can copy and paste them from a password database? I’m sure the web developer thought they were increasing […]
Since my last login, something changed, regarding how Suntrust was using session cookies, because suddenly I could no longer pay bills or transfer money using Mozilla Firefox on my laptop. I was receiving the error message, “We’re sorry. We could not set cookies or find a session for you.” Yet, I was still logged into […]
So, we just walked through how to generate a self-signed certificate in the last post. Next, we need to bind that certificate to a website in order to enable SSL on that website. This post walks through the binding the self-signed certificate. Make certain you have generated the self-signed certificate: Use the steps in […]
I needed to add https:// support to a website, add redirection, and test that everything functioned. I was in a hurry to complete this testing, so didn’t want to deal with purchasing a third-party certification. So, I thought to myself, “No problem, I’ll just install a self-signed certificate!” Here are the steps, if you need […]
Normally, when you want to access something that the firewall or other security settings think is “suspicious”, you click “Yes” to accept the risks. Well, Internet Explorer 8 changed all that with its error message “Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered security?”. In order to view the content, the […]
I had a test web server setup to use an internally issued web certificate. It was working OK with the complete full qualified hostname. But, I also wanted it to work with the server’s IP address. What I mean by work, is I wanted the lock (in IE or any other web browser on that […]