[CQ-Contest] contesting.com certificate?

[Barry]

Thanks for the explanation, David (and others).  Yes, I did have to log 
in, as it's been several months since I visited the site.  I guess that 
was what was different between my visit to the site and others who did 
not get the certificate warning.

Barry W2UP


On 7/19/2014 06:48, David Levine wrote:
> A bit of misinformation in the thread.
>
> The certificate is used when you click "Login" as it directs the site 
> visitor to https://www.contesting.com/user/login so whoever said 
> there's no HTTPS/SSL isn't correct. If you are logged in, log out and 
> try to log in. If you aren't logged in, whether you have an account or 
> not click Login and you'll see the alert. Changing browsers has no 
> impact on this.
>
> The certificate is not expired as it is valid until the end of the 
> month. The warning is because the certificate is associated with 
> eham.net <http://eham.net> and not contesting.com 
> <http://contesting.com> and it's a mismatch on the domain name. I'd 
> guess contesting.com <http://contesting.com> is hosted on eham's host.
>
> Anyway, I wouldn't worry about it though the contesting.com/eham 
> <http://contesting.com/eham> folks should correct it. The cert will 
> expire in 11 days so when they get a new cert, maybe they can also 
> correct the common name so contesting.com <http://contesting.com> is 
> included.
>
> http://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html#hostname=www.contesting.com
>
> David - K2DSL
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Barry <w2up at comcast.net 
> <mailto:w2up at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>     When I went to contesting.com <http://contesting.com>, Firefox is
>     telling me the site may be unsafe as its certificate has expiered.
>      Anyone know anything about this?
>     Barry W2UP
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