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Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

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Who else remembers when it used to be an insult? I preferred it that way.

Yeah. I remember TL;DR meant wall of text, kinda same way RTFM was used. It was a response to something not a tag to indicate what you were doing. How things change so fast on the Internet.

The new meaning is a lot more useful (in the sense that I find lots of opportunities to use it).

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

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

...what kind of massage you received? My browser only talk about the warning, but i only have old chromium... Not auto-updating g chrome

All people giving downvotes to this comment, I think you are being unfair to this person who just seems to have a bad English. He probably meant "message".

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

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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…

I usually put a check for "SSL certificate expires in less than 30 days" in the NMS. There is certainly a market for network monitoring as a service and this is a useful check to have in one.

Here's a free service that makes auto-updating iCal calendars from SSL and domain expirations: http://domainical.org/

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

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TL;DR means "here's a very short explanation".

Why not use the word "summary"?

I think it's the same reason people write "lol" instead of "hahaha" even though they are not actually laughing out loud.

It sounds like internet speek, it's cooler and more 1337.

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

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Bing is important. It's a good search engine, comparable to Google's quality and size. And it's the only competition Google has in the US and most of Europe. (Sites like DuckDuckGo and Yahoo pass queries on to Bing). Dumb errors like this SSL problem are embarassing, but the larger frustration is how despite years of having a good product, they have so little market traction.

I think Google has like 90% market share in Europe, and most of the rest is taken by Yandex/Yahoo. Bing has a very tiny market share worldwide (like 2%-4%).

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

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Stackify created this exact thing after the last time this happened with MS Azure about 2 months ago. It's called certalert.me ( http://certalert.me ) and is a free service. It's not a huge business, but it was almost trivial to setup with all the advanced monitoring & diagnostics that stackify typically does anyway.

Very useful. It's not a super hard problem to solve, but I did think it provided enough value that companies would be willing to pay for it. SSL is used on the most important pieces of a business' infrastructure, I thought it'd be a simple sell. I also can't tell if certalert.me checks for hostname mismatches. That was another part of my service, because a misconfiguration is just as fatal as an expired certificate.

Out of curiosity.. how much money were you trying to charge for the service?

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

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Slightly off-topic: what's a good way to handle cases such as this where you have a wildcard certificate? I'll be getting a wildcard certificate for a project and, never having used one before, I had assumed the certificate would be valid for an entire domain. I understand from this situation that a wildcard certificate is relevant only to https://*.example.com and not the subdomainless https://example.com . Assuming…

Typically a certificate issuer will grant you both when you buy a wildcard one. This can be achieved via SAN (alternative names): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_certificate#Limitation

Comodo's been good to me in this regard.

Incidentally, beware of RapidSSL and their "free www." SAN; they only grant it in certain specific and undocumented circumstances.

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

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

...what kind of massage you received? My browser only talk about the warning, but i only have old chromium... Not auto-updating g chrome

This is the latest message: http://i.imgur.com/ogDhMQp.png

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

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post #74

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...what kind of massage you received? My browser only talk about the warning, but i only have old chromium... Not auto-updating g chrome

All people giving downvotes to this comment, I think you are being unfair to this person who just seems to have a bad English. He probably meant "message".

lol
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