Make sure your site (or directory) is SSL encrypted

mikehale (Michael Hale) — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:52:54 GMT

Need a simple way to make sure all http requests get redirected to https?
This apache config snippet will redirect all requests at or below the specified location to its https equivilant.





        RewriteEngine on

        Options +FollowSymLinks

        Allow from all

        RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$

        RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]

Authenticate with SMTP server before sending email

mikehale (Michael Hale) — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:55:15 GMT

For more info see: http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/javadocs/com/sun/mail/smtp/package-summary.html

You need activation.jar, smtp.jar, and mailapi.jar in your classpath for this to work.



import java.util.Properties;



import javax.mail.Message;

import javax.mail.MessagingException;

import javax.mail.PasswordAuthentication;

import javax.mail.Session;

import javax.mail.Transport;

import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;

import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;

import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage.RecipientType;



public class MailWithPasswordAuthentication {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws MessagingException {

		new MailWithPasswordAuthentication().run();

	}



	private void run() throws MessagingException {

		Message message = new MimeMessage(getSession());



		message.addRecipient(RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress("to@example.com"));

		message.addFrom(new InternetAddress[] { new InternetAddress("from@example.com") });



		message.setSubject("the subject");

		message.setContent("the body", "text/plain");



		Transport.send(message);

	}



	private Session getSession() {

		Authenticator authenticator = new Authenticator();



		Properties properties = new Properties();

		properties.setProperty("mail.smtp.submitter", authenticator.getPasswordAuthentication().getUserName());

		properties.setProperty("mail.smtp.auth", "true");



		properties.setProperty("mail.smtp.host", "mail.example.com");

		properties.setProperty("mail.smtp.port", "25");



		return Session.getInstance(properties, authenticator);

	}



	private class Authenticator extends javax.mail.Authenticator {

		private PasswordAuthentication authentication;



		public Authenticator() {

			String username = "auth-user";

			String password = "auth-password";

			authentication = new PasswordAuthentication(username, password);

		}



		protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {

			return authentication;

		}

	}

}

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Make sure your site (or directory) is SSL encrypted

Authenticate with SMTP server before sending email