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Tritanium Avenger
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-07-07 19:46:09 UTC
I am working on a little API project but the web hosting i am using doesn't support openssl.
Is there a way to circumvent the https protocol to make an API call or can anyone suggest a free web hosting service that has openssl enabled?

ps: no i'm not goin pay for the hosting of a single webpage:p
Peter Powers
Terrorists of Dimensions
#2 - 2013-07-07 21:11:27 UTC
Tritanium Avenger wrote:
I am working on a little API project but the web hosting i am using doesn't support openssl.

rotfl.

Tritanium Avenger wrote:

Is there a way to circumvent the https protocol to make an API call

i don't think so, https was added as a requirement a while ago.

Tritanium Avenger wrote:

or can anyone suggest a free web hosting service that has openssl enabled?
ps: no i'm not goin pay for the hosting of a single webpage:p

i'm surprised there is a hoster which doesn't. However since you have not stated what language you are using, maybe there isn't much competition with the hosting services.

Also, "a single webpage" doesn't say anything about what you need, and thats what should set a prize, you can get hosting from major hosting companies without weird "no openssl" limitations for as little as 2 dollars a month.

However since you wanted to keep your freeloader attitude,

you might want to look into googles app engine, i'd be surprised if they don't support openssl, also they come in flavours for java, python and php, so there is a chance its a language your fiddling with.
For ruby if i remember correctly heroku has a small package that should be free.

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Tritanium Avenger
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2013-07-07 21:29:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Tritanium Avenger
Peter Powers wrote:
i'm surprised there is a hoster which doesn't. However since you have not stated what language you are using, maybe there isn't much competition with the hosting services.

Forgot to mention i'm writing in php. Seems that majority of free hosting services have a strict ruling about modifying the php.ini not even to enable Openssl which is off by default.

Peter Powers wrote:
you might want to look into googles app engine, i'd be surprised if they don't support openssl, also they come in flavours for java, python and php, so there is a chance its a language your fiddling with.


I'm looking at it right now. Php is somewhat not officially supported yet, but i think i can manage to get something out of it. Thanks
Steve Ronuken
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#4 - 2013-07-07 21:38:17 UTC
If it's just for you, have a look at XAMPP

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Peter Powers
Terrorists of Dimensions
#5 - 2013-07-08 11:03:13 UTC
Tritanium Avenger wrote:
Peter Powers wrote:
i'm surprised there is a hoster which doesn't. However since you have not stated what language you are using, maybe there isn't much competition with the hosting services.

Forgot to mention i'm writing in php. Seems that majority of free hosting services have a strict ruling about modifying the php.ini not even to enable Openssl which is off by default.


If you have to enable it as extension through php.ini, there is already something wrong, ideally openssl support is enabled/disabled by a configure flag when building PHP (--with-openssl[=path]).
It should be installed by the systems administrator and not need any config modification by a user.

That said, if it is compiled seperately as an dynamic loaded extension, yes you could enable it through the php.ini, or use the dl() function, but those options are usually limited by hosters (as you stated yourself), and i would run away screaming from a hoster that choses to give his customers that options over having it build into php.




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brinelan
#6 - 2013-07-08 21:10:02 UTC
If your host wont support something as simple as ssl then time for a new host. Free hosts tend to either be very overloaded or have practically no features.

As someone else said if you are just using this for your own project then use a vm or something like xampp that install a web server on your local machine
Tritanium Avenger
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2013-07-09 11:52:52 UTC
Thx all for your answers. I finally managed to find a free hosting service that supports ssl connections.
I was already using xampp for testing but i needed to make it avaible to others