Recently, Google said it will use HTTPS as a ranking signal. So, if you are a website owner, you might be thinking of switching to HTTPS. However, that meant purchasing an SSL certificate. Last month CloudFlare announced Universal SSL which will allow all its customers (including free users) to be able to use SSL on […]
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Many times we have seen warnings similar to “This page contains both secure and nonsecure items” or “This page has insecure content.”. This happens when we are viewing a HTTPS site and some content on the site is loaded from HTTP. So when we try to view a site say https://www.example.com and we get this
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A favicon (short for “favorites icon”) is a small image associated with a website intended to be used when you bookmark a page. Web browsers also use them in the URL bar, on tabs, etc to help the users identify a website. It is typically a 16×16 pixels square icon which is saved as favicon.ico in the root directory of the website’s server.
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Most of the applications or websites today have a user registration system which requires storing usernames, passwords etc. A developer of the application should always store passwords securely and never in plain text. There are many methods to encrypt or hash passwords and store in the database but which method to use? The methods that
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In this post we will see how to encrypt and decrypt data using PHP OpenSSL. We will be using asymmetric (public/private key) encryption. In this encryption a user generates a pair of public / private keys and gives the public key to anyone who wants to send the data. The sender of the data will
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