SNI and certs.

[Jeff Dyke]

Just a personal preference, but i put an https version in front of all
sites(and redirect 80 to 443) and keep the certs up to date for free with
lets-encrypt/certbot (i have nothing to do with the company), with SNI,
 one IP. This is simple as I keep the nginx configurations up to date with
a configuration management tool (saltstack in my case).

That's my philosophy on 80 vs 443 and a mixed case, i like the consistency
in my configuration and the ability to maintain groups of configuration
types based on site needs.  And you do get a small SEO boost for being
https forward.

Jeff



On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Lukas Tribus <luky-37 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> > It seems that search engines are probing https: even for sites that
> > don't offer it
>
> Which is fine.
>
>
>
> >  just because it's available for others, with the end
> > result that pages are being attributed to the wrong site.
>
> Sounds like an assumption. Any real life experience and
> evidence backing this?
>
> Sounds simply enough to drop the HTTPS request if the
> certificate doesn't match the hostname.
>
> Every standard wget/curl/lynx application drops the TLS session
> by default in this case, I don't see why a crawler wouldn't.
>
>
>
> > Does anyone have a better solution ( nginx of course! )
>
> If this is a real problem (which I doubt), I guess you could just
> serve a 403 Forbidden from the default hosts.
>
>
> Lukas
>
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