Questions tagged [ssl]
HTTPS (TLS, aka SSL) is supported on Stack Exchange. Use this tag for any bugs related to it.
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Let’s Encrypt chain of trust changes will affect a small number of users on Stack Exchange
tl;dr: As early as September 9th, some users accessing the site from old Android devices (running Android 7.0 and earlier) may see SSL warnings in their browser regarding an invalid certificate when ...
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July 2024 roadmap blog post contains http (not https) links
Tl;dr - Could this blog post be updated to use https:// links for MSO/MSE in the final paragraph? Consider using the site names (not domain names) in the visible text, too (meta.stackexchange.com → ...
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Invalid certificate on sg-links.stackoverflow.email
Just received the weekly email from WebMasters, and the links are currently routing to an "Invalid Certificate" error:
Your connection isn't private
Attackers might be trying to steal your ...
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meta.*.stackexchange.com redirection does not work
In 2017, all child Meta sites moved from meta.*.stackexchange.com to *.meta.stackexchange.com. According to Network-wide HTTPS: It's time there is an automatic redirection:
We've redirected all ...
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SSL missing in network's all sites page to Server Fault blog
If we go to https://stackexchange.com/sites#questions Server Fault has a link to its old blog, as shown in the screenshot:
The link is missing SSL as can be seen in the code:
<div class="lv-...
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Link to stackexchange.com is not HTTPS under the default "community-specific" close reason on per-site metas
There is a default close reason available on per-site metas under "Needs improvement → A community-specific reason" that has a link to stackexchange.com that is not HTTPS. For instance, on ...
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Expired SSL certificate? [duplicate]
I got an error when I visited meta.politics.stackexchange.com:
meta.politics.stackexchange.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.askubuntu....
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Make all links in 'Stack Gives Back 2022!' and 'Stack Gives Back 2023!' HTTPS
Two links in Stack Gives Back 2022! are HTTP, while their HTTPS equivalents work fine:
Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)
UNICEF
In the spirit of Network-wide HTTPS: It's time, ...
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Should http links within the SE network be automatically converted to https?
I have noticed that occasionally some people still link to some other posts using http rather than https.
Two random examples I have seen recently: Dependent multiple choice vs. dependent choice - ...
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Could the citation helper include DOI-links as https rather than http?
The citation helper usually includes some link in the citation. Specifically, it includes a link to zbMATH.
And a link to a paper - quite often as DOI.
However, the DOI-links are in the "old"...
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Change "http" to "https" in the tag-info imported for the default tags
On every per-site-meta, there are default tags1 which are automatically created when the site is created. At the same time, the tag-info for some of them is created - although there are a few bugs ...
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Harmonize display names for automatic URL rewrites
A couple of years ago, Stack Exchange switched to HTTPS-only and all internal links were rewritten by (non-bumping) edits by the Community user, like this one here.
I just noticed that on Stack ...
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Change blog link in election text to HTTPS
The introductory text for elections contains the following paragraph with a link that's still HTTP:
Community moderators are accorded the highest level of privilege on our community, and should ...
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Change the HTTP status blog links to HTTPS
In the "We are currently offline for maintenance" page, the status blog link is a HTTP one. Please change it to HTTPS.
Also, in the header which is shown when the site is in read-only mode, ...
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Link to per-site meta in the sidebar/dropdown "Step 1: Draft your question" is not HTTPS and has the old format meta.*.stackexchange.com
Similar to: Link to parent site is not HTTPS in the sidebar/dropdown "Step 1: Draft your question" on any per-site Meta.
When asking a question on some SE sites, such as Mathematics the ...
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