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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: gary2468 on January 04, 2019, 09:09:52 pm

Title: avrfreaks??
Post by: gary2468 on January 04, 2019, 09:09:52 pm

Firefox is complaining that the site is not secure.
Anyone have concerns or issues with that site?

thanks in advance

Title: Re: avrfreaks??
Post by: tsman on January 04, 2019, 09:17:18 pm

Looks like a misconfiguration by the hosting provider. The SSL certificate is for Acquia who host avrfreaks.net but they're using the wrong certificate. It should have avrfreaks.net in the Subject Alternate Names but this certificate doesn't for some reason.

Title: Re: avrfreaks??
Post by: Fred27 on January 04, 2019, 09:18:06 pm

It looks like the SSL certificate is not for the right domain. That's not great, but unless you're entering credit card details I wouldn't worry about it.

Title: Re: avrfreaks??
Post by: Kilrah on January 04, 2019, 10:48:14 pm

Or credentials that are reused on other sites.

Title: Re: avrfreaks??
Post by: Mr. Scram on January 04, 2019, 10:53:11 pm

Quote from: Kilrah on January 04, 2019, 10:48:14 pm

Or credentials that are reused on other sites.

Luckily nobody is doing that. Right?

Title: Re: avrfreaks??
Post by: Kilrah on January 04, 2019, 10:59:47 pm

People are people...