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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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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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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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Change to HTTPS links in the /users?tab=moderators page
In the /users?tab=moderators page of all SE sites (SO too), there is a link to the election page under each moderator's profile but the links are HTTP. Please change them to HTTPS.
Reasons to post ...
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The chat image upload "from the web" is broken for sites that use the new R3 Let's Encrypt SSL certificate
Let's Encrypt expired their X3 root certificate and started issuing certificates with their R3 root certificate at the end of September.
The image uploader in chat offers an option to provide an url ...
reneMod
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Links in Stack Exchange security website
I recently found this website: https://stackexchange.com/about/security
I noticed this:
I don't think that's how the link is supposed to be shown. Please fix it.
Also, I noticed some HTTP links. ...
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Certificate Error on Stack Overflow [duplicate]
Every time I open Stack Overflow this happens. But on my laptop it's working fine. This is just only on my PC.
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The SSL certificate for the archived Stack Exchange Gaming Blog is invalid
I tried to visit the Stack Exchange Gaming Blog's archive today but was greeted by a classic SSL warning. Turns out, the certificate behind https://blog.gaming.stackexchange.com/ is invalid as it is ...
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Meta.*.stackexchange.com sitewise certificate issue [duplicate]
There is a bug where I see a privacy error on all meta.foo.stackexchange.com sites. For example, if I try to enter meta.retrocomputing.stackexchange.com into my browser, I get this warning:
Can ...
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Incorrect certificate on hatdash.com / blog.gaming.stackexchange.com [duplicate]
It looks like hatdash.com was used during the 2011 Hat Dash. Both of these links use certificates that are invalid for their domains, making the site show as insecure.
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License links are not HTTPS in README files of Developer Surveys
I was having a look at the 2020 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results and noticed that the license links in README_2020.txt are not HTTPS. The links seem to be the same in the previous surveys too.
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Certificate Expired on SEDE
It looks like the SSL certificate for data.stackexchange.com just expired.
If you were in the middle of running queries you would be greeted with:
Something unexpected went wrong while running ...
reneMod
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Let's Encrypt certificate issue requiring urgent renewal
Stack Exchange's certificates are in need of renewal ASAP due to the Let's Encrypt CAA rechecking bug. They have sent out notification emails to affected users but I'm reporting this here just in case....
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Ubuntu manpages oneboxing has broken, insecure icon
Oneboxing from the Ubuntu man pages site appears to be using a broken, insecure icon:
The broken link is http://manpages.ubuntu.com/favicon.ico.
Not only is it attempting to load the icon ...
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StackExchange's OAuth login broken - identifying an HTTPS request as non-HTTPS
Recently (as in, the last few hours - however, it may have been broken for a few days), I've been unable to login via Stack Exchange for a third party application with Stack Exchange's OAuth support. ...
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Chat makes old per-site meta links HTTPS and broken
I was looking at an old chatroom when I found a link from a feed that was from before per-site metas switched from meta.%.stackexchange.com to %.meta.stackexchange.com. This link, however, was changed ...
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URL link issue in data explorer tutorial page
There is an issue with a URL, in one of the Data Explorer tutorial pages.
In the Tutorial -> Next Steps page, I can see the following description
You can find some interesting queries in this list ...
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Firefox won't open Stack Exchange sites due to "TLS FEATURE MISSING" [duplicate]
I'm running Firefox Quantun, 67.0 (64 bit) on macOS Mojave and it won't load any of the Stack Exchange sites and instead shows a "Secure Connection Failed" page with error code: ...
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Stack Exchange sites currently do not work in Firefox due to broken OCSP stapling [duplicate]
As of a few minutes (hours?) ago, all SE sites except chat present a TLS error in Firefox:
An error occurred during a connection to superuser.com. A required TLS feature is missing. Error code: ...
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Is anybody else having PKI problems connecting using Firefox 67.0?
I suddenly started getting the following error message when using Firefox to access Stack Exchange sites:
An error occurred during a connection to math.stackexchange.com. A required TLS feature is ...
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Community user profile has a non-HTTPS link in the "About" section
I was recently reading about Community, when I noticed this ironic, very minor, problem in its profile: the link to an answer in the profile's "About" section is not HTTPS.
However, Stack ...
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Banners of questions migrated from per-site metas prior to HTTPS changeover link to the origin site's old URL, resulting in certificate error
I was browsing through the question Favicon of Earth Science and Spanish are too similar (exactly the same in HNQ list) which got migrated from Earth Science Meta:
As you see, the link points to ...
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Uploader in Chat doesn't use HTTPS
In the uploader in Chat, when putting an image on Stack Imgur from the web, it doesn't make the link it puts in the message use HTTPS. Here is an example of the uploader doing this. This should be ...
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Error message for HTTP image sometimes flows over into preview
When editing a post with an embedded HTTP image (example), you'll see an error message asking you to upload it to imgur or specify an HTTPS URL:
However, the lack of a line break after the image in ...
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Got invalid certificate error trying to log in [closed]
I got an invalid certificate error for stackauth.com a few minutes ago when trying to log in to SuperUser via Google. I tried again (after taking a screenshot and blacking out the potentially ...
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"Connection is not secure" error in some of the promotion pages
The following promotion pages are with the "Connection is not secure" error.
https://contests.stackoverflow.com/promos/1
https://contests.stackoverflow.com/promos/2
https://contests.stackoverflow....
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"Connection is not secure" error in all the stackexchange.com pages
In the StackExchange.com and in the all sub pages, I'm receiving the Connection Is Not Secure error.
Screenshot for reference:
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OpenID login on SEDE over HTTP is broken, doesn't show error [closed]
I was trying to log into SEDE using the Stack Exchange OpenID function. However, without any erros, I kept not being logged in.
Eventually, I discovered I was using the HTTP to connect to SEDE, not ...
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Archived Arqade Blog Overflow gets certificate error
http://blog.gaming.stackexchange.com/2012/08/identifying-games-when-you-cant-remember-the-name/ redirects to https://blog.gaming.stackexchange.com/2012/08/identifying-games-when-you-cant-remember-the-...
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Non-HTTPS images are still served in some cases
Regarding the announcement from last March, Roadmap to HTTPS: serving and uploading HTTPS-images only, has there been a recent change to this policy?
Non-HTTPS images are being displayed on some posts....
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Old HTTP links to SE sites without ending / weren't converted to HTTPS links
About a year ago, several migration scripts were run to change old HTTP network-internal links across the network to HTTPS links. However, it appears that the script didn't modify links that lack the ...
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Why doesn't Area 51 use HTTPS by default?
On the page https://stackexchange.com/sites, there is a link to Area 51.
This link doesn't use HTTPS and Area 51 doesn't redirect to the HTTPS page.
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"How to not be a spammer" help page contains badly-rendered HTTP link on all sites
See the image below. The link to the Meta post is not in HTTPS on all sites (including SO, SU, SF, AU), at this page:
https://*.stackexchange.com/help/promotion
As I tweaked in the F12 Developer ...
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CAPTCHA doesn't present words
I know there's a new invisible form of CAPTCHA, but I'm not sure what words should be entered. Am I missing something?
Browser logs:
This may or may not be due to the HTTPS issue reported in ...
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Questions migrated from the meta site get the wrong link to the original question
See for example Why is there a module for version 9 of core? migrated to Drupal Answers from its meta site. The link given in migrated from meta.drupal.stackexchange.com Oct 19 '13 at 16:40 points to ...
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Winter Bash 2017 : Authentication screen with http:// URL
When I access the Winter Bash 2017 and click the log in option in the top bar, I get the following the authentication screen.
There the URL for the winter bash 2017 is http://. Can this URL be ...
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stackpromos.com HTTPS cert is invalid
The certificate presented does not work for stackpromos.com, leading to a warning in my browser about an invalid certificate.
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Certificate invalid? [duplicate]
I'm not sure what caused this, but my Chrome detected the certificate from *.stackexchange.com invalid for discuss.area51.stackexchange.com
This is what I've done:
Open this user's chat profile page ...
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Unable to translate error message when post contains a non-https image
If you place the following code into the post body:
[![text][1]][1]
[1]: http://1
you will see an error message:
Text of this message is not available to translate via Transifex.
All image ...
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HTTPS image conversion didn't work for .ico files
In Roadmap to HTTPS: serving and uploading HTTPS-images only, Step 3 said:
After this is enabled, old posts that have HTTP images, accessible via HTTPS, will be edited accordingly. This will be ...
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Ugly look on custom error page on chat because of request to HTTP resource
I was visiting some transcripts from a chat room and then I found a link to another room which was removed. On that custom error page, I found two main issues and one was caused by another main issue.
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Invalid certificate for https://www.*.stackexchange.com [duplicate]
Stack Exchange will do a permanent redirect from www to non www for all Stack Exchange sites. This works fine without SSL but, with SSL the browser will throw an Insecure Connection error due to the ...
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A bot script needs to be run to convert meta.[site] URLs to [site].meta URLs
The Community bot already ran through posts to convert internal http:// links to https://, which is great, but it needs to be run one more time: this time, it needs to convert links of this format:
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Still HTTP links in /tour on various sites
<Something> Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for <some people>. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we're working ...
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HTTPS certificate error for meta redirect pages (meta.<site>.stackexchange.com)
Visiting https://meta.security.stackexchange.com displays an HTTPS certificate error in Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 10.
For reference, meta.<sitename>.stackexchange.com is the old URL ...
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Change links in errors and warnings to HTTPS
Another question here on Meta brought something to my attention. Most links in errors and warnings that come up when posting or editing still are HTTP. I have a few examples listed below from various ...
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Messaging failed, Houston didn't get contacted
In the answer on Which browsers are officially supported, and what else do I need? a link is offered to the Network Login Help page.
I'm not sure if that page is still relevant given the changes ...
reneMod
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