Google App Engine 1.7.0 available to download

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Post by dotpot » Wed, Jun 27, 2012, 8:57 AM UTC

Google App Engine 1.7.0 available to download
developers.google.com

Re: Google App Engine 1.7.0 available to download

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Post by MatthewPhillips » Wed, Jun 27, 2012, 12:36 PM UTC

For a second I thought they were open-sourcing App Engine. Instead this is just a download for the SDK.

Re: Google App Engine 1.7.0 available to download

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Post by hencq » Wed, Jun 27, 2012, 12:47 PM UTC

Finally, SSL for custom domains: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl

Re: Google App Engine 1.7.0 available to download

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Post by dotpot » Wed, Jun 27, 2012, 12:49 PM UTC

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #2

For a second I thought they were open-sourcing App Engine. Instead this is just a download for the SDK.

you can browse the source if you like: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/

Re: Google App Engine 1.7.0 available to download

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Post by jbarham » Wed, Jun 27, 2012, 1:01 PM UTC

hencq wrote: post #3

Finally, SSL for custom domains: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl

And it costs $99/month. Hmm. (I'm not considering SNI since IMHO it's a non-starter not being supported by XP.)

Lack of custom SSL was the main issue preventing me from considering App Engine for my web service, so I'll definitely have to revisit it to see how it could compare to AWS in production.

Re: Google App Engine 1.7.0 available to download

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Post by alecco » Wed, Jun 27, 2012, 1:06 PM UTC

hencq wrote: post #3

Finally, SSL for custom domains: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl

I wonder why did this feature take 4 years to happen.

Re: Google App Engine 1.7.0 available to download

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Post by hencq » Wed, Jun 27, 2012, 1:19 PM UTC

jbarham wrote: post #5

hencq wrote: post #3

Finally, SSL for custom domains: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl

And it costs $99/month. Hmm. (I'm not considering SNI since IMHO it's a non-starter not being supported by XP.) Lack of custom SSL was the main issue preventing me from considering App Engine for my web service, so I'll definitely have to revisit it to see how it could compare to AWS in production.

Alternatively I guess you could detect non-SNI browsers and redirect them to appspot.com instead, but that feels a little messy.

Re: Google App Engine 1.7.0 available to download

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 27, 2012, 1:34 PM UTC

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Re: Google App Engine 1.7.0 available to download

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Post by follower » Wed, Jun 27, 2012, 1:43 PM UTC

Heres's the SDK release notes: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkReleaseNote... (Includes the billing details for SSL.)

Re: Google App Engine 1.7.0 available to download

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Post by yahelc » Wed, Jun 27, 2012, 1:52 PM UTC

alecco wrote: post #6

hencq wrote: post #3

Finally, SSL for custom domains: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl

I wonder why did this feature take 4 years to happen.

The Cloudflare blog post about how they tried to work-around it is a pretty good explainer on the underlying issue. http://blog.cloudflare.com/ssl-on-custom-domains-for-appengi...

>>>Here's a bit of detail on the core problem. SSL is tied to a particular domain and, usually, an IP address. Managing SSL certificates in an elastic cloud environment is non-trivial. As a result, many cloud providers don't support SSL at all or, like AppEngine, create a wildcard SSL cert for their domain and force everyone who wants SSL to send requests to that. Unfortunately, if you try and make a request to AppEngine from your own domain then the SSL certificate won't validate. We initially thought we could solve this as a proxy just by ignoring SSL errors from the origin, but AppEngine also routes based on the host header. If the host header isn't a subdomain off appspot.org then traffic gets rerouted to the Google home page.