[PLUG] newegg security

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Thu Jul 6 15:10:59 UTC 2017


On 07/06/17 07:49, Tim wrote:
> 
> 
>> OK, tried it again this morning and got the insecure connection problem
>> again.  I also tried it with Chrome and got a similar security warning.
>> Could someone else please try these two addresses and report if you see
>> a similar problem?  To the best of my knowledge, both of these are
>> Newegg IPs.
>>
>> https://38.95.229.188
>> https://216.52.208.188
> 
> 
> HTTPS certificate validation will fail if you are not accessing the
> web server using the site's appropriate DNS domain name.  Public HTTPS
> certificates cannot be issued for IP addresses, so the URLs you
> included are guaranteed to fail validation.

OK, that makes sense, and also explains why the SSL Labs test says I
can't use IP addresses.  Can you please try https://secure.newegg.com ?
It's causing security errors here.

galen
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