Hiya, just got NPM installed and working, very happy to finally have SSL certs on all of my serivces and proper URLs to navigate to them, what a breeze! However, as I am still in the learning process: I am curious to know when to enable these three toggles and for what services. I assume the “Block Common Exploits”, can always be turned on. But unsure about the two others. Some applications have not worked until I turned on the Websockets Support, but I dont really know what it does, nor do I know what applications need this in order to fully work. Are there any thumb rules for these things?
Appriciate any pointers! 🌻
As others said, “Websocket Support” enables support for them and is required for some applications. “Cache Assets” caches (likely static) assets in the proxy so they don’t have to be loaded from the backend service - I’d leave this disabled unless the backend service is hosted on another network entirely, and even then only enable it if you know the implications. “Block Common Exploits” is a very primitive filter against SQL injection (and similar) attacks. It also blocks some user agents. I wouldn’t enable it as it won’t do much to block a dedicated attacker and some filters may falsely trigger in edge cases, causing errors.
Thanks for this, I guess it would matter much for me to have the BCE on or not, as my services are only hosted over my own VPN and not exposed at all.
Then yeah, that option is worthless to you. For me, having networked solutions over a domain I have that enabled. But if its just internally I’d also disable it