Hacker News: jbailohttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jbailoHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:35:54 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by jbailo in "The Heartbleed Bug"]]>I used the OpenSSL library for building a SAML token parser in JBoss (java). All the front end stuff was java and OpenSSL was used for public/private key decryption and validation of SAML tokens and signatures. I'm not sure exactly what an OpenSSL "server" -- it sounds like there is a feature which you can implement (or not) in your webserver to test the SSL/TLS listener.

However, you could -- as I did -- use anything else as your interface for the web. Why would you specifically include a heartbeat for just SSL is beyond me. If a website is up and running, you'll know it with the usual methods, the https codes. You don't need a separate "heartbeat" for telling you that an internal mechanism for processing a protocol is running...do you?

]]>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 04:09:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7564137jbailohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7564137https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7564137