A question came up at the last Web Council Meeting about protecting a directory with Pubcookie. The page loaded, but CSS, Javascript, and images didn’t. This can almost always be fixed by using PubcookieAppID in your .htaccess file.
There are times when it’s useful to be able to check an SSL cert’s subject or expiration date. In addition, it’s useful to both check the cert file and query a service. This is useful for more than just web servers; SMTP, IMAP, and LDAP are other services which use SSL certificates. There are several ways to check certs, and what I cover in this post is by no means exhaustive. (more…)