Disable outdated certificate warning
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hucker last edited by huckerCurrently suffering from this:
Your connection is not private
Attackers might be trying to steal your information from asteroidsathome.net (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards).
NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALIDSo, a little volunteer organisation without paid staff has let their certificate expire. Why oh why is Opera so fussy about 1 DAY out of date? It was ok yesterday. How can one day possibly make a difference?
It's not internet banking. It's a volunteer science project. I'm risking nothing. Please stop bugging me!
Ok, at least it lets me in if I sign an agreement in indelible ink, but could we make that permanent? There must be an option somewhere. I tried opera:flags then added https://asteroidsathome.net to the "Insecure origins treated as secure" section, but it didn't work.
I tried the command line switch --ignore-certificate-errors which does work, but I can't work out how to make that active when I click a link in another program which launches Opera via the default browser setting in Windows. It also puts up an annoying warning banner.
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blackbird71 last edited by@hucker said in Disable outdated certificate warning:
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So, a little volunteer organisation without paid staff has let their certificate expire. Why oh why is Opera so fussy about 1 DAY out of date? It was ok yesterday. How can one day possibly make a difference?It's not internet banking. It's a volunteer science project. I'm risking nothing. Please stop bugging me!
...Because digital code and circuitry involves 1's and 0's, not approximations or rationalizations. A cert that's out of date (hence, a potential security risk, in theory) is... out of date, whether by 1 day or 1 year. The cert test looks for a cert that is valid and current for a web site, full stop... if it fails to find that, it fails with the error message like you saw.
The cert test validation-tests the cert itself... it doesn't know (or care) if it's a little volunteer organization or a bank containing (or pretending to contain) all your assets.
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hucker last edited by hucker
@blackbird71 said in Disable outdated certificate warning:
@hucker said in Disable outdated certificate warning:
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So, a little volunteer organisation without paid staff has let their certificate expire. Why oh why is Opera so fussy about 1 DAY out of date? It was ok yesterday. How can one day possibly make a difference?It's not internet banking. It's a volunteer science project. I'm risking nothing. Please stop bugging me!
...Because digital code and circuitry involves 1's and 0's, not approximations or rationalizations. A cert that's out of date (hence, a potential security risk, in theory) is... out of date, whether by 1 day or 1 year. The cert test looks for a cert that is valid and current for a web site, full stop... if it fails to find that, it fails with the error message like you saw.
The cert test validation-tests the cert itself... it doesn't know (or care) if it's a little volunteer organization or a bank containing (or pretending to contain) all your assets.
Https should only have ever been used for banking and other security conscious activities. To have it on every single website is just hassle and expense. For example why are we using https to post to this forum? If somebody impersonated this forum, what financial loss would I get? None!
And back to my point, it should be easier for a user to disable it.
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