[annotator-dev] AnnotateIt.org SSL?

Wed Oct 22 19:47:17 UTC 2014

Thanks for looking into this. More noodling…
I think it's totally worthwhile to support SSL if you intend for a broad community to integrate directly with annotateIt.org as a reliable, long-term annotation store. But if it's mostly meant to demonstrate the annotator library and annotator-store reference implementation with the expectation that "real applications" will set up and run their own annotator-store then it might not be worth it. Ya know?
I guess it depends on which role you see AnnotateIt.org playing in that larger picture.
-ben

On Oct 22, 2014, at 11:29 AM, Nick Stenning <nick at whiteink.com> wrote:

> Hi Ben,
> 
> Thanks -- this is a great question. I'd love for annotateit.org to be
> behind TLS. Unfortunately, as you've noticed AnnotateIt is currently
> hosted on Heroku, where TLS is not exactly cheap. We'd need to buy a
> certificate and then pay $20/mo. for termination on Heroku.
> 
> It's not hard to do, and I'd be happy to do it in a spare moment. Let me
> talk to some people about whether we could pay for this.
> 
> -N
> 
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014, at 23:55, Ben Leinfelder wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Are there plans to allow https access to the annotator store hosted on
>> annotateit.org?
>> I see the server is configured to use a wildcard domain certificate
>> (*.herokuapp.com) instead of the annotateit.org hostname.
>> 
>> This makes it difficult to integrate annotateit.org with a webapp that
>> uses SSL.
>> Thanks!
>> -ben
>> 
>> (For example, something like:
>> https://annotateit.org/api/search?user=leinfelder)
>> 
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