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Bing doesn't support SSL

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Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

#12

The real question is, why were you on bing? :P

I couldn't find something on google, so I decided to give it a try. Can't hurt. I wanted to find out if anyone has done a study on language confusion(the effect where Russians have a hard time getting good at Polish because they confuse Polish words with Russian ones). Still can't find it ;)

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

#13
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TL;DR: bing SSL certificate is wrong. https://bing.com : subject=/CN=*.bing.com https://www.bing.com : subject=/C=US/O=Akamai Technologies, Inc./CN=a248.e.akamai.net

Wow, that's the first time I've ever seen a 0-word article get the TL;DR treatment.

Actually the warning message from chrome is pretty lengthy

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

#14
post #3

Looks like someone pushed the wrong SSL cert to production: www.bing.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: a248.e.akamai.net , *.akamaihd.net , *.akamaihd-staging.net (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)

Australian Ebay (https://www.ebay.com.au/) has had the same problem for months, although I appear to get no response for https://www.ebay.com, so I'm not sure what their policy is on SSL access to the homepage.

I expect that Microsoft will fix Bing much more quickly.

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

#16
post #13

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Wow, that's the first time I've ever seen a 0-word article get the TL;DR treatment.

Actually the warning message from chrome is pretty lengthy

At first I thought it was a joke from Google. Something like: "No you don't want to use bing, here is google."

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

#17

The real question is, why were you on bing? :P

I couldn't find something on google, so I decided to give it a try. Can't hurt. I wanted to find out if anyone has done a study on language confusion(the effect where Russians have a hard time getting good at Polish because they confuse Polish words with Russian ones). Still can't find it ;)

Try asking on http://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/ -- those guys are pretty sharp about this kind of thing. (Assuming that reddit isn't down due to DOS attack.)

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

#18
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I made a site that checked for SSL cert expirations and misconfigurations, but I couldn't acquire any customers. I still think there's a business there somewhere, although maybe it really only sells as part of another product. Edit: If anyone wants a script to check their certificates, here you go: https://gist.github.com/bretwalker/5420652 . You'll just need to add in some sort of notification logic, especially for…

Sounds like something you could license to companies to use as a lead generation tool - like HubSpot's Marketing Grader http://marketing.grader.com/

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

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comment of the day!

To Microsoft : Please fix your IE debacle ( somehow!!).. Its affecting your other products.. Its reputation is becoming infectious.

Do you mean Windows 8 debacle ? AFAIK, IE10 is a good browser and IE9 is not so bad.
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