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Comment on What I brought home from Scottish Ruby Conference by Daniel Lucraft

Daniel Lucraft — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:38:38 +0000

Hey,

what went wrong when you tried to install Redcar? Email me and I’ll see if we can get you sorted.

thanks,
Dan

Comment on Escaping single quotes in Ruby harder than expected by DJ

DJ — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:41:24 +0000

Cool. Thanks!

Comment on Keeping Fedora 6 going after end-of-life by Marinda Burger

Marinda Burger — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:37:11 +0000

Thanks. After more than a YEAR my problems on an old linux box was solved. Forever gratefull!!

Comment on It’s fun to thrash bikes by David Vrensk

David Vrensk — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:39:20 +0000

Thank you! I’ve updated the link.

Comment on It’s fun to thrash bikes by Amanda Termén

Amanda Termén — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:35:54 +0000

Rabalder has a new website, so the link above doesn’t work any more: instead go to http://www.korenrabalder.se

AND we have a new show coming up at Frölunda Kulturhus, starting April 17 – you’re more than welcome to attend!

Best,

Amanda, Rabalder singer

Comment on Keeping Fedora 6 going after end-of-life by a pdf

a pdf — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:25:02 +0000

THANKS David!!
I am another loser hanging on to FC6. Well, I needed this info so that I could install ntfs-3g to use a harddrive to backup my stuff, because the computer is about to die. You have saved me a LOT of grief!

Comment on Keeping Fedora 6 going after end-of-life by shiva

shiva — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:44:57 +0000

thanks after search all the web ,u solve my problem

Comment on Verified HTTPS in Ruby by Flavio Duarte

Flavio Duarte — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:13:32 +0000

@David

ok, thanks

Comment on Verified HTTPS in Ruby by David Vrensk

David Vrensk — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:48:25 +0000

@Flavio: No, I haven’t used this with SOAP. Actually, I rarely use Soap4r, but instead I create an XML request and parse the XML response using something like HappyMapper. It doesn’t really scale, but sometimes it’s good enough.

Comment on Verified HTTPS in Ruby by Flavio Duarte

Flavio Duarte — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:04:11 +0000

Hello,
Have You an example of request soap with certified authentication?

thanks

Comment on Same, same – but different by Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:44:01 +0000

Sorry läste inte hela texten. Fast nu undrar jag om du har en diagnos eftersom du kan snöa in på det där.

Comment on Same, same – but different by Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:40:55 +0000

Biweeklyolust, hm nu är du lite väl hetronormativa?

Comment on Escaping single quotes in Ruby harder than expected by Elvi B

Elvi B — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:56:46 +0000

amazing! Thanks so much for the explanation. This was a crazy one to track down.

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Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:31:57 +0000

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Comment on Verified HTTPS in Ruby by grosser

grosser — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:20:55 +0000

thanks for the writeup, just saved me lot of time

Comment on Verified HTTPS in Ruby by Thibaut Barrère

Thibaut Barrère — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:20:19 +0000

When it’s too tricky and if possible, I switch to curl or wget inside a queue. But thanks for posting these tips!

Comment on Verified HTTPS in Ruby by David Vrensk

David Vrensk — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:44:12 +0000

@Stephan: your last two comments were caught in the spam filter which I didn’t cull until today. Sorry, my bad.
I’ll get back to you later; have to run now.

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BusinessRx Reading List : Verified HTTPS in Ruby — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:51:22 +0000

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Comment on Verified HTTPS in Ruby by Stephan Wehner

Stephan Wehner — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:07:57 +0000

If you look at the tests that come with httpclient, http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/httpclient/ they run their own test server to get a handle on https security.

Do you think the original code of your blog post verifies the server certificate? The implementation of validate_certificate at http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r/wiki/SslCertificateVerification does this for the case that one already has the file from the CA.

Here might be another way,

http.cert=OpenSSL::X509::Certificate.new(IO.read(path-to-already-available-cert))

Stephan

Comment on Verified HTTPS in Ruby by Stephan Wehner

Stephan Wehner — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:43:37 +0000

If you look at the tests that come with httpclient, http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/httpclient/ they run their own test server to get a handle on https security.

Do you think the original code of your blog post verifies the server certificate. The implementation of validate_certificate at http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r/wiki/SslCertificateVerification does this for the case that one already has the file from the CA.

Stephan

Comment on Verified HTTPS in Ruby by David Vrensk

David Vrensk — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:09:33 +0000

Good question. I suppose the best way to find out is to build a nice test suite, but that would require having hosts that respond in the right way (like https://google.com/ and https://www.google.com/, which of course cannot be trusted to behave like they did when I wrote this post).
I have checked out the diff and it’s nice and simple and a step in the right direction.

Comment on Verified HTTPS in Ruby by Stephan Wehner

Stephan Wehner — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:58:59 +0000

Yes, I am thinking the same, however I am not sure.

For example, are there earlier Ruby versions that didn’t have this method (then it was added, then it was removed again)?

Comment on Verified HTTPS in Ruby by David Vrensk

David Vrensk — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:56:01 +0000

Ah! So basically I should be good with

http.enable_post_connection_check = true if http.responds_to? :enable_post_connection_check

if I understand you right? Many thanks!

Comment on Verified HTTPS in Ruby by Stephan Wehner

Stephan Wehner — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:51:07 +0000

… I forgot …. the enable_post_connection_check method is removed since the check is performed by default …. one turns it off with Net::HTTP#verify_mode= OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

Comment on Verified HTTPS in Ruby by Stephan Wehner

Stephan Wehner — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:48:12 +0000

I think “more modern Ruby versions” are more secure. How much more secure, I can’t tell, sorry. I don’t think they include the “CA Root Certificates bundle”.