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homepages.plus.net certificate

longtimeuser — Wed, 28 May 2025 07:23:04 GMT

I'm having trouble with browser access to my pages at homepages.plus.net in the last few days. I've think I've tracked the problem down to the new certificate for homepages.plus.net that has an issue date of the 23rd May 2024. It has a common name setting of respository.plus.net. I think the browser expects the common name to match the domain name of homepages.plus.net and this mismatch causes the browser to not trust the certificate and block the site. It you access the site via http://homepage.plus.net rather than https://homepges.plus.net it is accessable, but the browser then marks it as Not Secure and applies restrictions.

I'm working around the issue by now accessing the site via https://repository.plus.net rather than https://homepages.plus.net which seems to work ok. Anyone else having this problem? How do I go about getting it resolved?

Re: homepages.plus.net certificate

bobpullen — Wed, 28 May 2025 07:28:44 GMT

This is what I see when I try browsing to your secure URL 🤔

Re: homepages.plus.net certificate

pjmarsh — Wed, 28 May 2025 07:34:54 GMT

@bobpullen, it looks like it depends on which server you get connected to: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=homepages.plus.net

Re: homepages.plus.net certificate

pjmarsh — Wed, 28 May 2025 07:43:23 GMT

@bobpullen, if you ignore mismatched certificates, the certificate coming from 212.159.9.91 was renewed yesterday for repository.plus.net, and doesn't include homepages.plus.net

Re: homepages.plus.net certificate

bobpullen — Wed, 28 May 2025 08:25:00 GMT

@pjmarsh wrote:

@bobpullen, it looks like it depends on which server you get connected to: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=homepages.plus.net

Thanks, that's conclusive enough.

I'll elbow some folk in the ribs 😉

Re: homepages.plus.net certificate

bobpullen — Wed, 28 May 2025 13:11:29 GMT

@longtimeuser - should now be sorted. Shout if you disagree and thanks for flagging.

Re: homepages.plus.net certificate

longtimeuser — Wed, 28 May 2025 13:43:12 GMT

That seems to have fixed it. Thanks for the speedy response.