Month: January 2016

nginx header inconsistency, aka setting headers all the way down

For the three visitors I attract in a month, I’ve had an outsized interest in making this the most secure WordPress site that I can. My focus of late has been primarily on the security-related headers I can set. In particular, ensuring that HSTS and HPKP were present on all requests became a priority.

Why?

A few weeks ago, I noticed that certain assets served from my CDN host lacked the Strict Transport Security headers (HSTS) I’d expected. To the best of my knowledge, I’d configured nginx to set these headers on every request.

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Building My Network

Over the past three years, I’ve spent more time than I care to admit on a single project. It started off innocently. Since then it’s grown to occupy a significant place in my daily thoughts.

As you read this, you’re experiencing the product of these efforts. Perhaps you clicked on an eth.pw short URL to get here. If not, your browser still had to figure out how to get to ethitter.com. Now that you’re here, maybe you need to contact me via email. To make any of these endeavors possible, I’ve built a personal “network” of servers and had endless fun doing so.
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