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Bunstonious

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Design Goals | SSL / HTTP
« on February 1st, 2014, 11:10 PM »
Just a question about the design goals for HTTPS implementation.

I myself prefer to use HTTPS exclusively as I use my sites from a few untrusted connections (work / train) but I know a lot of people don't like to because of the performance overhead. MyBB always had only either HTTP or HTTPS, but not both (without a plugin), is that something that is a thought when you initially implemented Wedge? (out of curiosity)
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Re: Design Goals | SSL / HTTP
« Reply #1, on February 1st, 2014, 11:34 PM »
I think Arantor had some plans with this... Or something. Although, I don't know, maybe it works in both out-of-the-box. My knowledge of https is limited. Even more limited? spdy :P

As for me, for years I've been the frontend guy, and I made sure to do my duty here. The only thing that was needed on the frontend was to accept external connections, regardless of their protocol. Wedge handles these nicely, AFAIK.

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Re: Design Goals | SSL / HTTP
« Reply #2, on February 2nd, 2014, 08:29 AM »
I'll be doing more testing when I get time.

I know Mediawiki works fine out of the box with either by selecting //sitename.com as opposed to http://sitename.com whereas MyBB can only run with the connection URL according to my limited research.

Good job with Wedge though, I mean it has been a long time coming, but it is (I feel) at least of Beta level.

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Re: Design Goals | SSL / HTTP
« Reply #3, on February 2nd, 2014, 12:30 PM »
Yes; that's pretty much what Wedge does. I put some thought into it. You can analyze core/app/Subs-Template.php if you want to find out more about it.

I've recently seen your blog post from 2012 saying you were waiting for Wedge, I'm just surprised you didn't ask for an alpha pass back in November 2012, when I released the first private alpha... ;)

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Re: Design Goals | SSL / HTTP
« Reply #4, on February 2nd, 2014, 01:23 PM »
Quote from Nao on February 2nd, 2014, 12:30 PM
Yes; that's pretty much what Wedge does. I put some thought into it. You can analyze core/app/Subs-Template.php if you want to find out more about it.

I've recently seen your blog post from 2012 saying you were waiting for Wedge, I'm just surprised you didn't ask for an alpha pass back in November 2012, when I released the first private alpha... ;)
I was thinking about it, but one of the stipulations was "must be an active member of the community" or something like that.

Didn't want to seem like one of those ungrateful pests :P

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