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Ubuntu 11.10: setting up Apache2 and SSL with self-signed certificate

Saturday, January 14th, 2012

Create a self-signed certificate: $ make-ssl-cert generate-default-snakeoil –force-overwrite It creates the following files: /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem Activate Apache SSL module: $ a2enmod ssl Activate Apache default ssl virtual host: $ a2ensite default-ssl Restart Apache: /etc/init.d/apache2 restart You should now see the following page on your webserver: It works! This is the default web page for this [...]

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About user agent strings

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

I was surprised when I saw the length of the Chrome user agent string last week: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.X.Y.Z Safari/525.13 And in our logs: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.29 Safari/525.13 a user agent string of 119 characters. It looks [...]

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