networking

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The "Pragmatic Path" 4-Year Update: Introducing Greenhouse!

When I started this blog in 2015, I was just playing around. I published a few small technical guides, cross-posted a couple articles I was paid to write for my employer's blog, and even the occasiona…
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How to connect to a remote redis server securely with TLS

Redis doesn't ship with TLS support out of the box, a heinous omission to be sure. TLS support can be enabled by compiling a custom build yourself, but the official "Securing Redis" guide recommends t…
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How to get a decrypted Wireshark packet capture from a node.js application that is talking HTTPS

I have a node.js application that is talking HTTPS with some server I don't have access to... How can I capture the traffic so that I can see the contents of the requests and responses? Yes, this h…
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How to get a decrypted Wireshark packet capture from a Java application that is talking HTTPS

I have a Java application that is talking HTTPS with some server I don't have access to... How can I capture the traffic so that I can see the contents of the requests and responses? This post is P…
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ServiceWorker + WebRTC... The p2p web solution I have been looking for!?

In my previous post Pragmatic Path Towards Non-technical Users Owning Their Own Data I talked about how hard it is to host web applications on your own hardware, at home, or on a mobile device such as…
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Docker API Security Gateway Proof Of Concept

The Docker API is very useful, but it also presents a security issue. Access to the docker socket or Docker API essentially represents root access to the host machine. This is bad news, because there…
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Forwarding Port 443 on CenturyLink Technicolor C2100T Modem

The Technicolor C2100T modem provided to customers by CenturyLink has a bug. By default, it's remote management interface, when enabled, will bind to port 443. However, even when the remote manageme…
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Pragmatic Path Towards Non-technical Users Owning Their Own Data

I don't have a statistic, but I assume that the vast majority of the applications and content that the average user interacts with these days goes through a web browser at some point. If your app d…
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HTTP Empty Response problem with ASP.NET Core 1.0 on Docker Linked Container

I ran into a problem with an ASP.NET 5 Web API project running as a docker container -- It started fine, and I could hit the api using curl from inside the container, but not from a separate, linked c…