Re: Can an upate center be on a site that requires https?
Sean Phillips <[email protected]>
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I can confirm this with my own findings. I was able to serve out an Update Center using an HTTPS Subversion repository even. This was super convenient because the platform will automatically popup a username/password dialog when attempting to connect to such an Update center. I love the platform. Sean On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Peter Hansson <[email protected]> wrote: > There's no problem. It can be HTTPS as well as HTTP. > > The only thing you have to remember - and this is not documented - is that > verification of the server's certificate has been turned off in the NB > Platform code. Any server certificate will be accepted. > Why this is so I don't know. I suspect it was handy when the code was > developed and then it was not removed when the code went into production. > > Peter > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 11:20 PM, jhuber <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> The examples and docs I've found for setting up an update center have all >> used a regular http URL, such as >> Code: >> http://my_site.com/updates.xml >> >> . >> >> Can the update center be on a site that requires https, such as the >> update center link would be >> Code: >> https://my_site.com/updates.xml >> >> ? >> >> Perhaps the https negotiation all happens in the background and NetBeans >> doesn't care??? >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> >> >