Announcing Better SSL for your Heroku App

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2012/5/3/announcing_better_ssl_for_your_app/

by bgentry • 14 years ago

69 19 14 years ago

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trun• 14 years ago

Here are the new features...

  - Instant provisioning
  - Client IP address is forwarded to application as X-Forwarded-For
  - Better validation of certificate files
  - Rollback of certificate changes

ccollins• 14 years ago

"Client IP address is forwarded to application as X-Forwarded-For" is the biggest news here.

Previously, it cost $100 per month to have access to the Client IP over SSL, so any sort of geo-location was out of the question.

Insane prices for arbitrary things are why I left Heroku a few months ago and decided to custom build my servers on Linode.

gemlogger• 14 years ago

Isn't this just Heroku copying what cloudflare already has on offer?

bgentry• 14 years ago

This is a standard HTTP Proxy header: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For

bradleyjg• 14 years ago

Maybe Heroku can license the technology to Google, since the Google App Engine team has seemingly been unable to launch a similar solution three years after putting it on their roadmap.

vailripper• 14 years ago

Does this support wildcard SSL certs?

mgorsuch• 14 years ago

It does!

Shanewho• 14 years ago

$20/mo for SSL is crazy.

jarcoal3• 14 years ago

It's because they have to provision an Elastic Load Balancer to sit in front of your app. That's the only way they can acquire additional IP addresses from AWS.

They make no money on this arrangement, they are simply passing the ELB costs on to you.

davepeck2• 14 years ago

ELB endpoints are domain names, not IP addresses. How would ELB help them "acquire additional IP addresses"?

wmf• 14 years ago

I guess this is an opportunity for any PaaSes that aren't built on EC2.

pjscott• 14 years ago

Let's see how many people pay it, and then decide whether or not it's crazy.

dazbradbury• 14 years ago

On Appharbor (The Heroku of the .Net world), SNI Based SSL is $10/m, Hostname based SSL is $50/m, and IP-based SSL is $100/m.

Announcing Better SSL for your Heroku App

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