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Friday Feb 04, 2005

HTTPS logins in Roller 1.0

Comments[0] by Dave in Roller

I just wrote up some instructions for configuring Secure Logins for Roller 1.0.

I had to make one minor change in Roller 1.0's Secure Login feature. I found that, when Roller is running behind a web switch, I can't rely on request.isSecure() to tell me if I have an HTTPS connection. I had to add an (optional) request header test. In my case, I have to test for a header named X-SSL to determine if HTTPS is active.

Ordinary user -> XHTML

Comments[2] by Dave in Blogging
Alan Williamson: I have attempted to use online editors (fckeditor/htmlArea) but they do not enforce valid XHTML and the results they produce can sometimes be a right old mess of tags  (try editing the source of a post-fckeditor saved text).  Ironically one of the common suggestions that have come from my users is their desire to use a WIKI type of input.  They are comfortable with this and it does solve a lot of UI problems. However I am finding it difficult to find tools that will actually take WIKI Markup and transform it to XHTML.
Do the closed source blog/wiki tools do a better job at going from ordinary user to XHTML?

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