Dear list, I want to mention some problems I faced with the awesome home page. I'm on linux and mainly use chromium as my main browser. The good thing first: I am able to enter the home page and the wiki. However, when I try to enter the bugs page¹, the following message appears:
The server's security certificate is revoked! You attempted to reach awesome.naquadah.org, but the certificate that the server presented has been revoked by its issuer. This means that the security credentials the server presented absolutely should not be trusted. You may be communicating with an attacker. You should not proceed. I'm no expert in network security, but my understanding of things is that certificates cost money. Awesome is not willing to pay the money, so they issue their own certificates. In theory everybody could do that, also a malicious site, that's why the browser warns that the certificate is not trusted. But what does it mean, that the certificate has been revoked by the issuer? Naquadah, the hoster of the awesome home page, issued the certificate and revoked it afterwards? I don't quite understand what's going on with this certificate. And honestly, I don't really care. I trust the awesome home page. I believe that entering the page will not nuke my computer. But the point is that it is *impossible* to enter. The only option is a “back” button. I cannot enter the page even if I know that it could be a risk. That is a major burden for the ordinary user. Firefox has a similar issue with the small, but important, difference that it offers a button “I understand the risk, but still want to enter”. In short, with firefox it is annoying, but possible to enter the page, with chromium it is impossible. I tried to play with some settings, but didn't find something obvious to fix it. Maybe there is an easy fix (please don't keep it for yourself and share your knowledge). BTW: The awesome bug page is not the only affected site, some links² of the awesome blog³ are also affected. Best wishes Marco [1] http://awesome.naquadah.org/bugs/ [2] https://awesome.naquadah.org/w/images/Unlogic-conscience-screenshot.png [3] http://definitely-awesome.posterous.com/ Chromium 17.0.963.56 (Developer Build 121963 Linux) Debian wheezy/sid) -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
