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Rebooting Weblogging?

I haven’t been out to scripting.com for a long time, and was surprised to find Dave is not using https. Of course, the page I tried to access (on rebooting weblogging) triggered a warning in my browser. It triggers a warning in any browser, but some are more severe than others. There were issues with […]

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Moving to HTTP/2

I upgraded my server to Ubuntu 16.04, converted my websites over to HTTPs, and locked them in using HSTS. It would be a shame to stop here without making one last change: upgrading to the HTTP/2 protocol. The web has been spinning along on HTTP 1.1 since 1997. It’s been a good and faithful servant. […]

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Internet Technology Web

The slowness of IPv6

When I set up my new server and moved my DNS records to my name registrar, I also included records for my server’s IPv6 address (2600:3c00::f03c:91ff:fecf:250d), as well as the familiar IPv4 address (72.14.184.192).  Supporting both is known as dual stack. I didn’t have to support IPv6 since I do have an IPv4 address, but […]

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Internet Technology Web

The slowness of IPv6

When I set up my new server and moved my DNS records to my name registrar, I also included records for my server’s IPv6 address (2600:3c00::f03c:91ff:fecf:250d), as well as the familiar IPv4 address (72.14.184.192).  Supporting both is known as dual stack. I didn’t have to support IPv6 since I do have an IPv4 address, but […]

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Moving to HTTPS: First, you upgrade everything

I was one of the lucky folks who received an email from Google warning me that it was going to start marking input fields in my sites as unsafe. “Time to move to HTTPS”, it smugly informed me. It irks me that we’ve given a company such power over us that it can force us […]