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https://pluto.potsdam.edu/ezproxywiki/index.php/SSL#Wildcard_certificate

(You can safely ignore the SSL warning, pluto uses self-signed certificates)

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On Mar 3, 2015, at 11:46, Karl Holten <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> If you're using proxy by hostname, it's my understanding that you need to purchase a SSL certificate for each secure domain, otherwise you get security errors. Depending on how many domains you have, the cost of this can add up. Maintaining it is a headache too because it seems like vendors often don't bother to notify you they're making a switch.
> 
> If there's some way to avoid doing this, I would love to know!
> 
> Karl Holten
> Systems Integration Specialist
> SWITCH Inc
> 414-382-6711
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stuart A. Yeates
> Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 5:27 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] making EZproxy http/https transparent
> 
> In the last couple of months we've had to update a number of EZproxy stanzas as either tools migrate to HTTPS-only or people try to access HTTP/HTTPS parallel resources using browsers that automatically detect HTTP/HTTPS parallel resources and switch users to the HTTPS version (think current Chrome, anything with the HTTPSeverywhere plugin).
> 
> We'd like to avoid updating our config.txt piecemeal on the basis of user-gernated error-reports
> 
> We're thinking of going through our EZproxy config.txt and adding an H https:// for every H or URL entry. (Domain and DomainJavascript already work for both HTTP and HTTPS).
> 
> Has anyone tried anything like this? Are there pitfalls?
> 
> cheers
> stuart
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