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An Interesting Warning Produced by Google’s Browser, Chrome

 

It happens when I click on some of the links on the following page,

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/the-super-awesome-wordpress-24-hour-has-patch-marathon/

I think these links are safe. The problem is, WordPress.org is using https URLs, but the SSL certificate is invalid. What a pitiful bug!

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April 16th, 2009 | Category: Web Surfing | 2 comments
Tags: Chrome, Internet 互联网 |

2 comments to An Interesting Warning Produced by Google’s Browser, Chrome

• Barry

  April 16th, 2009 at 5:20 pm · Reply

  Howdy. Thanks for pointing this out. The links in the post were mistakingly posted at https://, they should have been http://. This has since been corrected. The certificate warning is because newer browsers fail to recognize wildcard SSL certificates (which is what we have for wordpress.org) for 3rd level subdomains. The certificate is perfectly valid, it just produces a warning in some browsers, as you experienced. Normally this isn’t a big deal, because 99% of the activity is via HTTP, the only thing we force HTTPS for is when you login and submit your username and password (for obvious reasons).

  • JoeNo1

    April 17th, 2009 at 8:14 am · Reply

    Wow! That was a quick response. Now, Problem is solved. Congratulations!

    Thanks for your clear explanation. It makes sense to me. I notice that HTTPS is also wildly used for online banking.

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