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How to legally submit an app to Apple’s App Store when it uses encryption (or how to obtain an ERN)
Disclaimer: this article is now obsolete as the rules have changed, please don’t waste your time reading it. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. There’s a lot of conflicting information out there about whether you need an ERN or not to publish an app in the App Store. I spoke…
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Forcing SSL in a Luminus application
We tend to be very security conscious at Carousel Apps and one thing we often do is force all our applications to run over TLS (aka SSL), that is, when you go to http://example.com we redirect you to https://example.com. This little article will show you how to do it in a Luminus application. First, add Ring…
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Redirect to SSL in Rails applications
I’ve looked at the various ssl_requirement repositories out there. I concluded the most modern and maintained version is yardstick’s which is released as a gem called sslrequirement, but I’ve failed to use it properly. So I just did it by hand. First, we need a simple method that will let us know whether SSL is…
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SSL with multiple virtual hosts and only one IP
I was writing this long post about how to use rewrite rules to make Apache query itself and serve various sites through the same SSLed virtual host using only one IP. After about four hours of struggling with it I thought I was done but then while writing this article I found out I was…