Alexa audio streaming skill http - alexa

Can somebody explain how get http url to https url. I wont to put SHOUTcast stream radio url (http://live.narodni.hr:8063/stream) in Alexa skill but can't figure out how. :(
Skill work great with https url. but I want specific radio to use in Alexa skill
Please help

Use of HTTP vs HTTPS (secured HTTP) is determined by the owner of the service.
Unless the person that owns the service has a HTTPS endpoint, you'll be stuck running on HTTP.
Normally when you make a request a HTTP endpoint, it'll default to port 80 whereas HTTPS endpoints default to port 443.
From your URL above, it looks like the owner of live.narodni.hr opened up port 8063 and used that port to listen for HTTP requests. If you can find if and where they have a HTTPS port, then that should work.
You may want to to just try https://live.narodni.hr/stream which will use port 443 which is equivalent to https://live.narodni.hr:443/stream. For testing, some people like to use port 8443 too (8080 for http), so you can try https://live.narodni.hr:8443/stream.
TL;DR - it's up to the service owner to enable/support an HTTPS endpoint. Find that endpoint and you'll be good.

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I am new to React and Express. The thing that I am trying to do is auto redirect all existing requests from HTTP to HTTPS. I want this redirection to be done automatically so clients does not need to change anything. In Express I am running Http on port 3000 and then running my application on port 3001 over HTTPS with valid certificates. When testing locally, I am able to see the redirection happening whereby http gets changed to https and port changes from 3000 to 3001 . So I passed http://localhost:3000 which got modified to https://localhost:3001. But when I deploy to my application server, when clients request for http://example.com:3000 , only the protocol changes from http to https but port no does not change. Its like https://example.com:3000. I want to know why the port number does not get changed as well. Strange thing is when I do curl -X GET http://example.com:3000 it says found and redirecting to https://example.com:3001. Had been struggling for while on this.
I am expecting both protocol and port number should reflect in browser rather only protocol changes but port number is not getting changed

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From my understanding of Cloudflare - the service is supposed to act as a reverse proxy for your server/website. I have added my site to Cloudflare, assigned my nameservers to Cloudflare's nameservers, and have enabled my DNS records to be proxied. The issue I'm having is that requests sent to my site are NOT coming from Cloudflare? The requests are just coming from regular IP addresses. I can see the requests on Cloudflare's WAF event logger, but when the request gets to my actual site - it's just the persons IP address. How can I set it up to where all requests come directly from Cloudflare? I tried adding rules in my .htaccess to allow Cloudflare IPs, and block all other requests, but that just returns an HTTP 403 Forbidden error. Any ideas on what I may have messed up in my Cloudflare configuration, or how to fix this?
I tried adjusting firewall settings on the server, and various changes in .htaccess to force requests only from Cloudflare's network
I think you're mixing two things:
If you add your site to Cloudflare DNS, it will just reply to dns queries, but the traffic from each client will go directly to your site.
If you want Cloudflare to proxy all the traffic to your site, you should use something like Cloudflare tunnels.

Kubernetes and AAD authentication

On configured AKS there is docker container with application that is using AAD authentication.
Based on this article there is also configured ingress. API is working well.
When I add to Azure Active Directory application registration reply URL with https prefix I receive error "The reply url specified in the request does not match the reply urls configured for the application". And I see that in browser address line redirect_uri is starting with http.
When I add reply URL that is starting with http, then I receive "Exception: Correlation failed".
What I have tried: Add to ingress.yaml setting ingress.kubernetes.io/force-ssl-redirect: "true"
May be there is some way to force ingress run https instead of http, or there might be some AAD redirect configuration? Any ideas?
UPDATE 2: Probably http redirect is because of ADAL.
PS: Was able to find similar topic without an answer
UPDATE3:
I have decided not to use nginx as ingress. Instead I am using now Load balancer. Soon it would be possible to use Azure Application Gateway Ingress Controller
Have you tried this?
By default the controller redirects HTTP clients to the HTTPS port 443 using a 308 Permanent Redirect response if TLS is enabled for that Ingress.
This can be disabled globally using ssl-redirect: "false" in the NGINX config map, or per-Ingress with the nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: "false" annotation in the particular resource.
More information on this on the Ingress documentation link.
You have to make a decision whether to use HTTPS or not. If this is just the start of a development cycle, start without it and get auth to work - but implement HTTPS as soon as possible.
AAD supports both http and https, but of course, the reply urls must be added to the application registration respectively.
As #mihail-stancescu says, ssl-redirect must be set to false, if you choose not to use HTTPS. In addition to this, you also have to ensure that your app does not make the redirect from HTTP to HTTPS.
Using curl with -L -k and -v options will give you a lot of information on what is actually happening with your requests.
When the http/https thing is solved, you have to remove any rewrite annotations you have in your ingress. (e.g. ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: / should be removed).
Now, if your ingress path to the service in question is e.g. /myservice, then the reply-url should also have that part of the path added ([host]/myservice/signin-oidc) - both in the AAD application registration and in the configuration of your app. (The path in the config should not contain the host)
If you are using https, then you must also have a proper certificate. You can use the free LetsEncrypt (https://letsencrypt.org/) in conjunction with KubeLego (https://github.com/jetstack/kube-lego), where you can find some nice examples on how to implement it.

bypass https to request non-secure link

I have a bit of an issue that I can't seem to wrap my head around. The app/site is secured complete with a SSL Certificate, but we need to send an $http request with angular to a non-secured api end-point. The service does not offer a https solution and everytime we try sending the request, our server blocks it because it is not secured. Is there anyway to get around this? A way to "whitelist" the domain name or something?
Information: Server is running Nginx and the request is being made via $http angularjs.

URL fetch service - is https secure or not?

I'd like to use the URL fetch service for app engine (java). I'm just sending a POST to one of my own servers from a servlet.
AppEngine -> post-to: https://www.myotherserver.com/scripts/log.php
I'm reading the url fetch doc:
Secure Connections and HTTPS
An app can fetch a URL with the HTTPS method to connect to secure servers. Request and response data are transmitted over the network in encrypted form.
The proxy the URL Fetch service uses cannot authenticate the host it is contacting. Because there is no certificate trust chain, the proxy accepts all certificates, including self-signed certificates. The proxy server cannot detect "man in the middle" attacks between App Engine and the remote host when using HTTPS.
I don't understand - the first paragraph makesit sound like everything that goes from the servlet on app engine, to my php script is going to be secure if I use https. The second paragraph makes it sound like the opposite, that it won't actually be secure. Which is it?
Thanks
There are two things HTTPS does for you. One is to encrypt your data so that as it travels over the internet, through various routers and switches, no one can peek at it. The second thing HTTPS does is authenticate that you are actually talking to a certain server. This is the part App Engine can't do. If you were trying to connect to www.myotherserver.com, it is possible that some bad guy named bob could intercept your connection, and pretend to be www.myotherserver.com. Everything you sent to bob would be encrypted on it's way to bob, but bob himself would be able to get the unencrypted data.
In your case, it sounds like you control both the sending server and the destination server, so you could encrypt your data with a shared secret to protect against this possibility.
The UrlFetch through https has been fixed allowing certificate server validation.
validate_certificate
A value of True instructs the application to send a request to the
server only if the certificate is
valid and signed by a trusted CA, and
also includes a hostname that matches
the certificate. A value of False
instructs the application to perform
no certificate validation. A value of
None defaults to the underlying
implementation of URL Fetch. The
underlying implementation currently
defaults to False, but will default to
True in the near future.

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