hacks

In the modern web application world, a large proportion of sites are using SSL Offloading, be this for the added security of the web servers not having the SSL private key on them (and hence if compromised the certificate is not necessarily compromised as well) or for the performance boost associated of using hardware accelerators.

Frequently in my line of work I’ll be asked about filtering of outbound traffic from application servers.

Using inotify and the ‘swift’ client tools it is possible to automatically upload files to cloudfiles as they are written to disk.