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Overriding HTTP response headers in Chrome
May 4, 2023

Starting with Chrome 113, you can override HTTP response headers, or add a new one. This is handy as you can override e.g. some security headers for testing. The HTTP response header override will be applied before things like CSP are processed so you can modify the Content Security Policy for the page for example.

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Maximum HTTPS certificate lifetime to be 1 year soon

In February at the CA/Browser Forum in Bratislava, Slovakia (and later officially), Apple has announced that starting September 1st, maximum TLS certificate lifetime in Safari (and probably in the whole macOS and iOS and all apps) will be just 1 year, 398 days exactly. Apple's change has been now followed by both Chrome and Mozilla. That's very good news. But why?

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Disable TLS 1.0 & 1.1 today

Microsoft, Google, Apple & Mozilla announced yesterday that they're removing TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 protocols from Internet Explorer, Edge, Chrome, Safari & Firefox browsers in the beginning middle of 2020. Your visitors most probably don't use them already so you can disable them in your server configs today. But let's verify that first using the “Handshake Simulation” tool available in the SSL Labs Server Test.

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Browsers are hiding the padlock and it's a Good Thing™
October 15, 2018

Magical properties are often attributed to the padlock icon 🔒 which marks “secure” pages. For example, you'll often hear that the icon indicates trustworthy websites that won't abuse your data and passwords. The padlock is gradually being removed and that's a Good Thing™. But why?

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Not secure: Chrome and HTTP websites
July 25, 2018

Chrome started marking all HTTP websites as Not secure yesterday (on my birthday, what a gift!) with their release of Chrome 68. The treatment is not a red warning yet, just a gray (i). And there's a lot of busy czech websites getting that treatment. And how did we get here anyway and what's next?

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Chrome, ERR_SPDY_PROTOCOL_ERROR, and an invalid HTTP header
August 28, 2017

When migrating your site to a more performant HTTP/2 protocol, it may happen that Chrome will not load a page and will display This site can’t be reached with ERR_SPDY_PROTOCOL_ERROR instead. HTTP/2 is derived from the earlier SPDY protocol, that's probably why the error message doesn't mention HTTP/2 at all. I'll show you how to figure it out with chrome://net-export.

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