On 26 December 2013 19:17, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26 December 2013 10:28, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:
> > On 23/12/2013 sebb wrote:
> >>
> >> ...
> >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Installation
> >>
> >> Confirm with IE, which reports a certificate for *.apache.org (Thawte)
> >
> >
> > I've seen it happening from time to time, regardless of the browser I
> use,
> > but randomly: at times, loading a wiki page gives the "certificate
> mismatch"
> > error, but I am unable to reproduce it consistently. Almost always the
> > certificate is correct and the browser does not complain.
> >
> > Today I could investigate it better. At the time of writing this, if I
> open
> > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Installation
> > with any of the browsers I commonly use, the certificate I get is the
> right
> > one (for *.openoffice.org, issued 11 June 2013). Though, if I fire up
> an old
> > Konqueror I get the *.apache.org certificate, issued on 20 December
> 2011,
> > and thus the "mismatch" warning.
> >
> > Experience with wget is quite complex too.
> >
> > With wget 1.12:
> > $ wget https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Installation
> > ERROR: certificate common name “*.apache.org” doesn’t match requested
> host
> > name “wiki.openoffice.org”.
>
> I get the same with 1.11.4 on WinXP.
>

It works for me, with firefox and IE on win7, but wget 1.14 fails on the
same vm.

I have a theory an would like it confirmed

@andrea, @sebb, please have a look in certificate manager/servers, and
check is wiki.openoffice.org is there, if its in there please tell me in
which group?




>
> > With wget 1.14:
> > $ wget https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Installation
> > [works as expected]
>
> On minotaur, I get
>
> ERROR: cannot verify wiki.openoffice.org's certificate, issued by
> '/C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/CN=DigiCert Secure Server CA':
>   Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
>
> Adding --no-check-certificate allows wget to work with a Warning:
>
> WARNING: cannot verify wiki.openoffice.org's certificate, issued by
> '/C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/CN=DigiCert Secure Server CA':
>   Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
>
> > With wget 1.13.4 from ooo-wiki2-vm (so this is repeatable by others):
> > $ wget https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Installation
> > ERROR: certificate common name `*.apache.org' doesn't match requested
> host
> > name `wiki.openoffice.org'.
> >
> > To avoid misunderstandings: this page does not currently contain any
> > "insecure" content. This is a separate problem, see below.
> >
> > Might it be that the *.apache.org certificate is served as a fallback to
> > some older clients that for some reason do not support the *.
> openoffice.org
> > one?
>
> Could be true.
>

If you trace tcp/ip, is seems there are 2 requests for certificate from
wget. I dont think the reason is the certificate itself, but  more the root
chain. There was a problem similar to this when the certificate was
installed.

rgds
jan I.


> >
> >> Does not happen in Firefox for me either, though I do get a shield
> >> icon [1] indicating that there is some http: reference that needs to
> >> be changed to https:
> >> [IE also reports the same issue, if one ignores the cert. error]
> >
> >
> > I investigated this on the VM as far as my permissions allow. It should
> be
> > due to the hardcoded "http" in the file GoogleCoop/GoogleCoop.php
> >
> > To work around this, I've temporarily removed the "Search within the
> FAQs"
> > function that was including Google CSE via http, see
> >
> https://wiki.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=Documentation%2FFAQ%2FInstallation&diff=232487&oldid=188626
> >
> > Does this solve the "insecure content" problem for you? It does for me.
>
> Yes, Firefox, Opera are now happy, as is IE once on gets past the cert
> error.
>
> > The right fix would then to change http to https in
> > GoogleCoop/GoogleCoop.php but I can't modify that file.
> >
> > Regards,
> >   Andrea.
> >
> >
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