Ask PG: When will HN get https authentication?

[jasonlynes]

I'm down in Austin for SXSW. And while I love seeing poor bastards pop up on my Firesheep sidebar, I can't use HN due to my own name popping up in there every time I open the page. When can we get https auth?

[mhusby]

I build this for adding GZIP to HN for browsing on my mobile, but as a nice side effect it also does ssl

https://quickhn.appspot.com/

It is just a VERY simple proxy running on Google App Engine, if you want to throw up your own the source is on github here

https://github.com/matthusby/HN-Proxy

[wladimir]

It's also faster than the original HN here.

Very nice work!

[gasull]

It's down.

[mhusby]

Yeah, there isn't really any error handling. If hn returns an error it just dies, just try reloading the page

[JoelMcCracken]

I think this is more of an "Ask PG".

[JoachimSchipper]

Patches are probably welcome.