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How to pass https requests to http in nginx
I have a self signed certificate, I deployed my front end react app on nginx which is served by using HTTPS but front end is making call to back-end spring-boot app over HTTP and when i check inspect ...
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Node.js server does not respond externally
I made a simple node.js server:
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(9999, '0....
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Angular post request refused, but nodejs post request works
I have an express app which listening on port 5000 like this:
app.listen(5000, "0.0.0.0, ()=>'Server started on' + 'port ' + 5000).
When I try to send a post request by node script using axios ...
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NGINX frontend HTTPS server rejects requests to local backend http express server
I have an application that's split into two servers: one is a React application running on port 8080 and the other is an Express server running on 3001. The machine running this application has to run ...
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How to reverse proxy a Nodejs instance on a directory of an AWS lightsail website
I have a website and Nodejs application hosted on the same AWS lightsail instance such that I want the website to connect to use the data hosted by the Nodejs application. The API is hosted on port ...
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Can an HTTP request to an HTTPS server be forced to encrypt? [closed]
I have an Unbuntu server running NodeJS, where I want to upload some files. Some of the files contain some data that I would prefer would not to be leaked, but it wouldn't be a massive issue if ...
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Red Hat - internal port forwarding blocked
I'm working on Red Hat, and I'm trying to set up a web service. I've implemented a port-forwarding from 80 to 8080 to access tomcat8 service.
firewall-cmd --add-forward-port=port=80:proto=tcp:toport=...
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Run HTTP server on port 9090 (Node.js) and use Cloudflare
I wonder how I can add to Cloudflare subdomain to a specific port that can work in the browser.
I open a socket using socket.io on port 9090 and have an index.html file
server.listen(9090);
if I ...
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Accessing node.js web server in a gce VM instance
We have setup a windows VM instance on gce for web server testing, with IIS and it works just fine: I can access my portal app from outside, since firewall has http/https traffic enabled by default, ...
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Should I worry about hanging sockets when setting keep-alive timeout to Infinity?
Some initial context to this question. Currently I have a application cluster deployed behind a ALB which maintains persistent keep alive connections with the application. This application is under ...
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Is it a security risk to run a local node server next to public web api?
I am currently running a public web api that runs on PHP. I was thinking of adding a local node server with which the PHP can interact. It would allow me to do stuff like passing off long running ...
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Server with http and https (node.js) - best approach
I have an app with node.js and express.js server and I want to provide access from 4 points:
https://www.example.com
http://www.example.com
https://example.com
http://example.com
And I am not sure ...
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Creating uptime monitor - Identifying network bottleneck [duplicate]
So I'm working on a website uptime monitor that should check thousands of websites per minute by doing a simple http call to them and checking the received status code.
I've tested it using multiple ...
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How can I configure IIS on Azure to stream chunked data from a Node.js app?
I have a Node.js app that uses Transfer-Encoding: Chunked to stream data over HTTP continuously until the client disconnects. When running a local instance of Node, it works fine, but when deployed to ...
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What happens when you make a HTTP request from 1 HTTP server on a VPS to another HTTP server on the same VPS?
I have 2 HTTP servers running on 1 VPS. If I make a HTTP request from 1 to the other. What happens exactly? Does it go through the internet and back? Or is it handled within the VPS?
Hosting: Digital ...
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Domain is forcing HTTPS automatically when accessing by HTTP
I have a project based on Nginx + Node.js. When I'm trying to access it by my domain, it automatically redirects from HTTP to HTTPS and I get a 404 because my deployment is not ready for SSL.
When it ...
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Proxy-attack simulation
I have a WS2008 x64 server, that has NodeJS application working on its 80 port. Server constantly receives queries from different IP-addresses that are trying to use my application as a proxy. NodeJS (...
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Someone tried to hack my Node.js server, need to understand a GET request in the logs
Alright, so I left my Node.js server alone for a while and came back to find some really interesting stuff in the logs. Apparently some moron from China or Poland tried to hack my server using ...
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amazon aws instance blocks outbound http requests
I have an Amazon account with ec2 instances. we have a client which we need to interact with using soap. However, Amazon only lets us run X about of queries, and then we can not issue more from that ...
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Nginx + node.js single page app, sending /index.html and proxying together
I've got a Nginx running, with Node.js on port 3000.
location / {
root /path/to/my/site;
index index.html index.htm;
try_files $uri $uri/ @node;
}
location @...
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Plotted ab results of node, cluster and nginx, odd results?
I did a test with ab -n 10000 -c 1000 against node.js with different configurations, each returning the string Hello World!. Results seems odd to me.
X axis is the number of requests, y is the ...
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How do I check how many HTTP connections are open currently? [closed]
I want to know how many people are connected to my server.
Since I'm doing comet applications, this is important
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WebSocket Connection vs. Repeated GETs
I am prototyping an application using nodejs. But this question refers to hypothetical large scale roll out. What is more demanding on a server and/or bandwidth: WebSocket stay alive connections or ...
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Nginx, HAproxy, Unicorn, Rails and Node settings
Our application is currently only a "regular" web app, with no fancy things like streaming HTTP or websockets. It's mostly a Rails app, served by a few (20 on 2 machines) Unicorn workers, proxied by a ...