HTTP Strict Transport Security with Apache

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a web security policy which helps to protect websites against protocol downgrade attacks by allowing web servers to declare that web browsers should only connect via secure HTTPS connections. The HSTS Policy for the site is communicated by the server to the browser via a HTTPS response header field …

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DNETC System V init Script

This week I was looking into init scripts again, its been a while… Anyhow, I remembered that I had written one for distributed.net’s client app. I thought I would share it, place in “/etc/init.d/dnetc”. It should work fine on current releases of Fedora, RHEL and CentOS. Its designed for the sysadmin to configure dnetc for …

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Firefox SSH protocol handler (Linux)

I have a web page that lists servers I need to connect to. This page has several hyper links for each server to key webpages on that host. I wanted to be able to connect using ssh too, at the click of a link. (eg: ssh://myserver.example.com and ssh://user@myserver.example.com) I started doing a bit of research …

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