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SSL for WordPress Admin and the Problem with XMLHttpRequest

Note! The updates to SSL handling in WordPress version 2.6 address the problem of SSL-encrypted admin sessions in a much less hackish sort of way. It doesn’t make any sense to use this plugin with WordPress version 2.6 when you can simply add define(’FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, true); to your wp-config.php file.

The WordPress Codex has documentation for running the login, registration, and administration interfaces on an SSL server. There is even a plug-in that will do much of the heavy lifting for you. I have found both of these methods, by themselves, to be rather unsatisfactory, though, in that admin services that rely on AJAX calls back to WordPress break (such as the periodic saving of drafts). What happens is this:

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2008 03 20 Comments (4)

OpenLDAP with a Go Daddy “Turbo SSL Secure Certificate”

Okay — this seemed like a lot harder than it should have been. At the very least, it took piecing together information from a number of places in order to make it happen. The goal is to use a Go Daddy Turbo SSL Secure Certificate (the $19.95/year one) to secure an OpenLDAP server. On the surface, this shouldn’t be so hard. The tricky part comes because the requested SSL cert is not signed by a recognized Certificate Authority root; instead, Go Daddy uses an intermediary certificate and the tricky part is making sure the whole chain of SSL certificates line up properly. There is a wealth of documentation for using intermediary certificates with web servers, but I found very little for OpenLDAP servers. I hope by posting this into the blogosphere you will find it useful someday, too.

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2006 09 08 Comments (4)
From the Disruptive Library Technology Jester (http://dltj.org/), printed on Monday the 13th of October 2008 at 2:14:50 PM EDT (-0400). The URL to this page is http://dltj.org/tag/ssl/

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