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SSL question in app server and web server

 
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im a newbie developer and im just kinda confused on this. sorry if my question seem kinda stupid to you experts out there. if you can set SSL (https) in the web server, why are there some applications written where SSL is manually set? if the request would pass to the web server anyway, why still configure in applications residing in the app server?

and whats with programmatically setting cookies to secure? isn't that the same as implementing SSL in an application? and does doing that override SSL settings in the app server? hope some of you can shed me light here.
 
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why are there some applications written where SSL is manually set?


What do you mean by that? A web app may or may not use SSL, but it needs to be enabled for the server to begin with.

Whether or not some cookie is set as secure is independent of whether an app implements SSL. Obviously, if the app does not use SSL, then setting the cookie as secure will not work.
 
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