SG Forum Website is considered "Insecure" by Firefox

John Brabant · From: Calais, VT, USA

Hi Bob:

I am now getting this warning when I log into the SG Forum by my Firefox Browser. Is there an upgrade that is required by the SG Forum to prevent this?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/insecure-password-warning-firefox?as=u&utm_source=inproduct
_________________
John Brabant
1978 Emmons D-10 P-P

Larry Carlson · From: My Computer

A while back Firefox thought they would save us from ourselves and make it more difficult
to log into a forum that was not encrypted.
It irritated so many people that there is now a work around to make that annoying notification disappear.
_________________
I have stuff.
I try to make music with it.
Sometimes it works.
Sometimes it doesn't.
But I keep on trying.

b0b · From: Cloverdale, CA, USA

Yes, the Forum needs to have an SSL certificate installed to get rid on that annoying message. I have tried and failed to get it working. The problem is that our server's version of Linux is no longer supported, so Certbot (which creates and installs SSL certificates in Apache web server) won't run on it.

I have moved the legacy archive site to a new server and it is supporting SSL. But moving this very active and antiquated forum to that server has proved problematic.

There is a movement afoot to make all web sites in the world use SSL. It sounds like a good idea until you actually try to do it with sites that have been functioning for over 20 years!
_________________
-𝕓𝕆𝕓- (admin) - Robert P. Lee - Recordings - Breathe - D6th - Video

Forum Index > Steel on the Web		Next oldest topic :: Next newest topic

All times are GMT - 8 Hours	Jump to: