Having worked on Mastodon just helped me solve an issue at work (securing a cloud service running on http behind https using nginx)

I should really study nginx more so I know what I actually did but it was a lot easier than trying to drill through docs haha

@Felthry it's the service that connects your client to the actual Mastodon code running and encrypts your traffic between it without the server needing to know what the specifics of the encryption are

@vahnj ah, okay. I know what some of those words mean!

@Felthry it can do more than that but it's what Mastodon uses

Think of it as the thing that controls how to access content on a server using a browser

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