Archive for April, 2010

Using HTTPS GET/POST – Commons HttpClient with Self Signed Certificate

I think Commons HTTPClient is a quite useful open source library for accessing various HTTP APIs from Java back end. It is very easy to setup a quick test program using this library. I used this very recently when one of our clients requested quick HTTPS access on one of his servers and we had [...]


Web Usability

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ssl_error_rx_record_too_long – Apache SSL

I faced this error recently while configuring SSL on apache and got really confused. After doing some research figured this out that there was some mis-configurations which was causing the issue. I checked meaning of this SSL response at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ref/ssl/sslerr.html . Here you can check all the error codes for SSL. This error code says [...]


Server Not Found – DNS resolution failing

I have been facing this problem from some time. When ever I try to open a website, mostly for the first time I get Server not found (Firefox, IE and Chrome) on all browsers. And with a refresh second or third time successfully get the home page opened on my browser. This is bearable couple [...]


Sender Policy Framework (SPF) – Notes on my learnings

I met one of my close friends two days back and during our revelry session he asked me a question. Being not from IT field (not exactly but far from IT from long time) he asked me to look into his problem which was related to IT. He has a website for his business and [...]