Fix #168, Rename SSL to HTTPS

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steve-chavez
2018-09-20 10:47:52 -05:00
committed by Steve Chávez
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@@ -289,12 +289,12 @@ The last type of critique focuses on the misuse of JWT for maintaining web sessi
PostgREST uses JWT mainly for authentication and authorization purposes and encourages users to do the same. For web sessions, using cookies over HTTPS is good enough and well catered for by standard web frameworks.
.. _ssl:
.. _https:
SSL
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HTTPS
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PostgREST aims to do one thing well: add an HTTP interface to a PostgreSQL database. To keep the code small and focused we do not implement SSL. Use a reverse proxy such as NGINX to add this, `here's how <https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html>`_. Note that some Platforms as a Service like Heroku also add SSL automatically in their load balancer.
PostgREST aims to do one thing well: add an HTTP interface to a PostgreSQL database. To keep the code small and focused we do not implement HTTPS. Use a reverse proxy such as NGINX to add this, `here's how <https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html>`_. Note that some Platforms as a Service like Heroku also add SSL automatically in their load balancer.
Schema Isolation
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