[arch-dev-public] bbs.archlinux.org is now switched to https only!

Pierre Schmitz pierre at archlinux.de
Fri Jul 16 08:02:29 EDT 2010


On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:37:04 -0400, Travis Willard
<twillard2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>wrote:
> 
>> 3) Our certificate is from CACert. AFAIK, this is not included in many
>> browsers by default. If you use Arch Linux, at least everything that
>> uses the OpenSSL certificate store and all Mozilla browsers are
>> CACert-enabled - on other operating systems, our certificate might show
>> up as untrusted.
>>
> 
> Ran into this one on Chrome on Windows.  Displays a scary warning message,
> and even goes so far as to cross-out the "https://" in the URL bar with a
> big red strikethrough. :P

Sure, you have to install the root certs from cacert.org. Or better:
Don't use Windows. :P

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Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre


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