A while back I wrote about using Apache as a dynamic reverse proxy. Anyone who has done even minimal research into web servers knows that Apache is the swiss army knife. It trys to be everything for everyone, and like a swiss army knife may not be as good as a more refined too at least as far as efficiency is concerned.Read the full article Transparent dynamic reverse proxy with nginx at -->

Someone on the sage-members mailing list asked about checking SSL expiration dates. We use the following script to check them via nagios (actually, we use a slightly older version that takes hostname and port instead of URL, but this is the next version we plan to roll out). I thought I'd post it here (with the permission of the author, who is no longer at Tufts) for others to use:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
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#####     check_cert.pl -- check  HTTPS,  IMAPS,  LDAPS or SMTP (with     #