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Tell HN: Quick and free SSL hosting? Remember Dropbox...
I was working on integrating a custom iframe tab in a Facebook app, and was having a lot of trouble displaying it to users browsing FB with SSL enabled. I don't have a server with an SSL certificate, and didn't want to pay for a new host or bother with getting a certificate.
You know who does have an SSL certificate? Dropbox. It's certainly a hack, but you can serve the iframe document from your public folder, and it works really well. There are bandwidth caps (10GB/day unpaid, 250GB/day paid - https://www.dropbox.com/help/45), but it could be a great solution for some situations.
- beaumartinez 16y agoThey could stop serving your content at any moment though... Not a very robust solution.
- julesallen 16y agoWhat about App Engine or S3 if you're just serving static files?
- HerraBRE 16y agoNeat hack! If you want a similar solution for something a bit more dynamic, all the http://pagekite.net/ http://pagekite.net/ sub-domains are SSL-enabled by default. You run whatever HTTP server you like, PageKite operates as a front-end and handles SSL. The connection between your server and the PageKite front-end is encrypted as well. Like Dropbox, there are bandwidth limits on the PageKite service, but for heavy users we'd be pretty open to negotiating - our public price structure is more meant for personal sites and prototyping. OTOH, for something like a Facebook app, 1GB probably goes a very long way.
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoNeat hack, but certificates can be had for free nowadays[1,2]. [1] E.g. startssl.com. [2] Of course, this means that the CA system is broken - you can't do any serious validation for $0.
- stussified 15y agoI think I love you