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Secure Your Google Apps (Gmail, GDocs, GCal, etc) Comments Off

If you are a Google user – meaning Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Reader, etc – then you should know that by default, once you log in your sessions are typically not encrypted between your browser and the Google servers.
For some more technical information on this, check out dmiessler’s post on the subject.
He [...]

Force HTTPS SSL Access for a URL with Apache 4

The situation is: you have an web application or URL that you would like to force your users (or yourself) to use the secure https protocol rather than the unencrypted http protocol. This is easy to do with Apache and .htaccess.
Create or add to the .htaccess file in the root of the web directory you [...]

Google Gmail, Docs, Apps and Reader Secured Comments Off

For Firefox and Opera only: Use the Google Secure Pro Greasemonkey script to force these Google programs to use SSL in your browser. It changes any accesses via http to https which is supported by Google, this secures your connection between your browser and Google’s servers.

If you do any type of work using Google’s services [...]

Apache’s mod_proxy with Exchange’s Outlook Web Access 2

Apache’s mod_proxy module is simply one of the best Apache modules out there. With it, you can do all sorts of things that you usually would not be able to do if you are behind a firewall or other limited network situations.
A problem that recently came up for me was how Microsoft Outlook Web Access [...]