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The SSL certificate has expired and we are renewing it now. I did renew the certificate over a week ago but the tech team that installs the certificate seems to have forgotten about it. I have sent an emergency ticket in to get it renewed. This should be resolved with in 24 to 48 hours. I am very sorry for this.
DRobertson
02-17-2014, 19:05
oh, great to know. THANK you. :shades:
wisenber
02-18-2014, 22:26
That would explain the error earlier.
Things are behaving better already. But, it's scary when we can't get our HF fix! :eek:
Stormstaff
02-20-2014, 03:46
Is this whole certificate thing is what's causing this?
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff47/Stormstaff_01/Error_zps517927ea.jpg (http://s241.photobucket.com/user/Stormstaff_01/media/Error_zps517927ea.jpg.html)
Refreshing
02-23-2014, 20:33
What is an SSL certificate? I got the error on my computer too. Do all websites have or need these?
nothermark
02-23-2014, 21:07
Short answer is that it is a way to get secure data exchanges for things like credit card data. It also authenticates the end to end connection. Probably not a big issue here most of the time but it is nice to have in case. They may also be using it for the donating member check. I don't know or care. ;-)
Longer answer look here:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SSL-Certificates-HOWTO/x64.html
If that is too simple for you then why did you ask? ;-))
Refreshing
02-24-2014, 08:23
Cool, thanks. I just started a blog and wondered if it was something that I needed but I found my answer!