[time-nuts] febo.com SSL certificate

[Bob Camp]

Hi

https://febo.com returns "This certificate is not valid (host name mismatch)" under Safari 

Apparently  by the bizarre rules of ssl wildcards - *.febo.com does not match feebo.com. I believe  febo.com goes in the SubjectAltName field and *.febo.com stays in the CommonName field. 

Very strange stuff.

Bob

 
On Oct 15, 2010, at 9:20 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote:

> I've regenerated the SSL certificate for HTTPS at febo.com.  The new certificate should be good for ten years, as I intended (but failed to accomplish) when I created the old one.  It's still a self-signed cert, so will throw a warning with your browser, but you can trust me and tell the browser to accept the exception. :-)
> 
> I'm traveling over the weekend so won't be able to address any problems, but if anyone has problems I'll do the best I can to respond early next week.
> 
> BTW -- because this is a totally non-commercial site, I'm not interested in forking over the money to buy a trusted certificate, not to mention the hassle of having to renew it.  Sorry if the security warning is an annoyance, but that's the way it is.
> 
> John
> 
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