I was troubleshooting this issue on an Azure App Service (ASE) and found the 404 was actually a 404.63.0 which translates into “Site not found: Hostname lookup failed, we are probably under attack”. The interesting thing was that it was only reproducible randomly and after I sat an hit the F5 or refreshed the page […]
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I wrote this article some time ago “How to disable TLS 1.0 on an Azure App Service Web App” that explains some of the reasons TLS was not configurable on the Azure App Service platform. There were many customers who wanted to disable TLS 1.0 so they could remain or become PCI compliant and at […]
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As you may already know SSL/TLS is offloaded on the Front Ends (*) and this is where certificate root chains are validated (AFAIK). There is no way for you to access those machines to dump out what CAs are there. The next, or closest thing I can think of is to dump them out via […]
Read More →Why is my Azure App Service Slow? Why does my Azure App Service consume so much CPU? Why does my Azure App Service consume so much memory? Why does my Azure App Service restart? Why does my Azure App Service open so many TCP connections? If you have ever asked any of those questions, look […]
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Since I support Azure App Services and there is a influx of customers who want to use the Azure App on Linux stack, I felt it prudent to get my feet wet with Ubuntu. Learning some #Bash too while I’m at it. #Linux The instructions on how to do this already exist here, so I […]
Read More →I wrote this article here that describes the requirements for creating an XDT file which will allow the configuration of attributes that must happen in the applicationHost.config file. As you know, you cannot simply / directly make a change to that file (applicationHost.config) on the Azure App Service, you have to extend it via this […]
Read More →This article has most to do with #AzureGermany #GermanCloud however the approach can be used in all Azure platforms. The point here is that there are numerous steps one must take in order to configure Visual Studio to connect to non-Public Azure instance. I mentioned some of those requirements here. There is also now an […]
Read More →I have started working with Globalization and Localization functionality for a system I am building. I could not understand why, when I wanted to get the intellisense for the class that nothing showed up. After some time I decided to use the full name of the class to get to the methods like this: [sourcecode […]
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Knowing the type of variable you are working with in C# and while programming in general is pretty important. You can’t add a double and an integer together and get an integer, without converting it. If you attempt to do this the compiler will throw an exception and you will not be able to run […]
Read More →With the release of C# 3.0 came Lambda Expressions. In a previous post I searched a generic list using a delegate, this is because, perhaps, I have done so much programming with C# 2.0 that it’s just a habit now. Time to move onto better, newer things, like Lambda Expressions. In the previous example I […]
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