Ask PG: When will HN get https authentication?

15 pointsby jasonlynes15 years ago6 comments

I'm down in Austin for SXSW. And while I love seeing poor bastards pop up on my Firesheep sidebar, I can't use HN due to my own name popping up in there every time I open the page. When can we get https auth?

7 comments

JoachimSchipper15 years ago

Patches are probably welcome.

rick_204715 years ago

JoelMcCracken15 years ago

I think this is more of an "Ask PG".

mhusby15 years ago

I build this for adding GZIP to HN for browsing on my mobile, but as a nice side effect it also does ssl

https://quickhn.appspot.com/

It is just a VERY simple proxy running on Google App Engine, if you want to throw up your own the source is on github here

https://github.com/matthusby/HN-Proxy

wladimir15 years ago

It's also faster than the original HN here.

Very nice work!

gasull15 years ago

It's down.

mhusby15 years ago

Yeah, there isn't really any error handling. If hn returns an error it just dies, just try reloading the page