Google Appengine now supports HTTPS

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2008/10/announcing-https-support-for-appspotcom.html

by ptm • 18 years ago

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smoody2• 18 years ago

Yikes. At this time either use the appspot.com domain for your URLs or, perhaps in the future, use a technique implemented by only the most modern of browsers (but excluding Safari at the moment). I'm sure that'll work for some people out there. Others, like me, are out of luck. :-(

charlesju3• 18 years ago

Ruby on Rails please.

jm43• 18 years ago

Umm... Why? I thought the whole point of Google AppEngine is that you get to run your application on the same infrastructure (hardware as well as development platform) Google uses for their own applications. If you want Ruby on Rails go download Ruby on Rails or find a web host that supports it.

charlesju3• 18 years ago

Google doesn't run their development platform in Python, they just chose that language because Google App Engine was created by one of the Python gurus.

In order to hit critical mass, they have to accommodate the masses. Currently, the 2 most popular languages for web programming are PHP and Ruby, neither of which are supported. In my opinion, if they did support it, they would get more business.

ivankirigin• 18 years ago

They already launched Rails hosting with liquid scaling. It's called http://heroku.com

smoody2• 18 years ago

I don't think it has liquid database scaling the way App Engine does. If you have to even spend a second thinking about sharding, partitioning, replication lag, etc. then you're not getting the same functionality.

jm43• 18 years ago

I haven't been paying much attention to AppEngine, but it seems like kind of a major oversight that there was no SSL support until now. Is anyone using this thing for real work? I don't know how it could be considered much more than a neat toy to play with given its lack for such basic features for so long.

alexkay3• 18 years ago

We use it for http://www.muspy.com, though we are thinking about moving away to plain Django. GAE has too many limitations.

sundeep2• 18 years ago

> GAE has too many limitations

could you elaborate please?

We are looking to get into GAE from plain Django, so I would love to hear your thoughts on the matter.

anamax• 18 years ago

Guido van Rossum will give a talk on Google App Engine on Nov 5 at Stanford. The talk can be viewed over the web.

http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/

Google Appengine now supports HTTPS

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