SSL/TLS is one of the dark corners of web programming that can seem way too complicated at first.  You need to run some strange commands to create a file filled with random characters, then use more commands to create another file full of weird characters from the first one.  Then you send the second file […]

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Your software needs to authenticate using the LDAP protocol.  You have configured it to talk to the central IT directory service, but something has gone awry.  Your client logs are only telling you half the story, and to figure out what’s going on, you need logs from the directory.  But those logs are unavailable or […]

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