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jed / how-to-set-up-stress-free-ssl-on-os-x.md
Last active February 27, 2025 16:31
How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

  • Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

  • Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

@theleanship
theleanship / tfl-tube-data.json
Last active December 18, 2015 00:49 — forked from paulcuth/tfl-tube-data.json
Forked to create single json object.
{
"lines": {
"B": "Bakerloo",
"C": "Central",
"D": "District",
"H": "Hammersmith & Circle",
"J": "Jubilee",
"M": "Metropolitan",
"N": "Northern",
"P": "Piccadilly",
@aymanfarhat
aymanfarhat / urlobject.js
Last active July 27, 2017 00:04
JS utility function that: - Breaks down url to an object with accessible properties: protocol, parameters object, host, hash, etc... - Converts url parameters to key/value pairs - Convert parameter numeric values to their base types instead of strings - Store multiple values of a parameter in an array - Unescape parameter values
function urlObject(options) {
"use strict";
/*global window, document*/
var url_search_arr,
option_key,
i,
urlObj,
get_param,
key,
@supr
supr / gist:1166302
Created August 23, 2011 19:50
For golang http.Handler to serve static files on /foo mounted at /xyz/foo
package main
import (
"http"
)
func main() {
http.Handle("/foo/", http.StripPrefix("/foo", http.FileServer(http.Dir("/xyz/foo/"))))
http.ListenAndServe(":6543", nil)
}
@paulcuth
paulcuth / tfl-tube-data.json
Created July 28, 2011 09:47
TfL tube line & station data in JSON format.
var lines = {
B: 'Bakerloo',
C: 'Central',
D: 'District',
H: 'Hammersmith & Circle',
J: 'Jubilee',
M: 'Metropolitan',
N: 'Northern',
P: 'Piccadilly',