Apr 19
open source security proxy with sec-wall
Linux, Networking No Comments »sec-wall, a recently released security proxy is a one-stop place for everything related to securing HTTP/HTTPS traffic. Designed as a pragmatic solution to the question of securing servers using SSL/TLS certificates, WS-Security, HTTP Basic/Digest Auth, custom HTTP headers, XPath expressions with an option of modifying HTTP headers and URLs on the fly.
This article is an introductory material that will guide you through the process of installing the software on Ubuntu and preparing the first security configuration – using HTTP Basic Auth with and without tunneling it through SSL/TLS.
The core of sec-wall is a high-performance HTTP(S) server built on top of gevent framework which in turn...