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Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

#41

Post by bwooceli » Fri, Apr 19, 2013, 1:41 PM UTC

back up as of 8:42 CST

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

#42

Post by xonea » Fri, Apr 19, 2013, 1:41 PM UTC

deepblueocean wrote: post #31

Wow. This has been going on for an hour now. It's such a simple fix, especially since one would assume that they already have a valid cert somewhere (or that Akamai does). Yet they've had an hour of SSL downtime. Does anyone know if Bing has any SSL-only clients? Like do any of their toolbars or built-in search widgets in Windows use SSL by default?

This is not new and probably will not be fixed fast - the situation has been like that (unchanged) since at least 2011.

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

#43

Post by theycallmemorty » Fri, Apr 19, 2013, 1:41 PM UTC

Y0L0 wrote: post #28

I sincerely hope that this not some sick and twisted joke by Microsoft.

I think you're in the clear.

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

#44

Post by Fargren » Fri, Apr 19, 2013, 1:42 PM UTC

wereHamster wrote: post #33

dsfasfasf wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't want google to know everything that I'm doing. Especially when searching for porn.

You can use chrome's incognito mode.

That is not the function of Incognito mode. Use it only if you care about leaving traces of yourself in your local history.

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

#45

Post by a_1 » Fri, Apr 19, 2013, 1:44 PM UTC

why would you use bing?

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

#46

Post by LTheobald » Fri, Apr 19, 2013, 1:47 PM UTC

It's not just Bing. I'm always accidentally going to http://stackoverflow.com & getting an error.

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

#47

Post by pasbesoin » Fri, Apr 19, 2013, 1:50 PM UTC

Why should we take Microsoft's Internet efforts seriously when they continue, perpetually, not to do so, themselves?

(Actions speak louder than words.)

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

#48

Post by joshstrange » Fri, Apr 19, 2013, 1:50 PM UTC

bwooceli wrote: post #41

back up as of 8:42 CST

I'm still seeing it 9:50 EST

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

#49

Post by robglas » Fri, Apr 19, 2013, 1:51 PM UTC

dominicgs wrote: post #14

Ricapar wrote: 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.

Passed this on to relevant team to look into for you (I'm with PayPal myself, so not sure about eBay's SSL approach).

Re: Bing doesn't support SSL

#50

Post by Trufa » Fri, Apr 19, 2013, 1:53 PM UTC

deepblueocean wrote: post #31

Wow. This has been going on for an hour now. It's such a simple fix, especially since one would assume that they already have a valid cert somewhere (or that Akamai does). Yet they've had an hour of SSL downtime. Does anyone know if Bing has any SSL-only clients? Like do any of their toolbars or built-in search widgets in Windows use SSL by default?

Easy fix? What the hell?

I don't like or use Bing services but when you get as big and complex as Bing, nothing is easy, it's not like you can open your text editor, modify one line, commit and push.

There so many other variables to take into consideration, by hurrying to fix, you could face all sort of vulnerabilities / other issues.

I'm not saying this error is acceptable, I'm saying it's ridiculous to say it's and easy fix without actually knowing anything, it might or it might now.