I sense a disturbance in the force

[mistfpga]

whats up with forums.z.cash not having a https cert? it was only a forwarder to here anyway.

[Autotunafish]

Someone else mentioned this on one of the discords as well, cant remember which thread it was in

(It was Prof Miller in the ZFND general)

[mistfpga]

@joshs

Sorry for tagging you. and yes i know edge is not a real brower, but still - is this a clerical oversight or is the ECC distancing itsself from the forums?

Your connection isn’t private

Attackers might be trying to steal your information from forum.z.cash (for example, passwords, messages or credit cards).

NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID

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forum.z.cash uses encryption to protect your information. When Microsoft Edge tried to connect to forum.z.cash this time, the website sent back unusual and incorrect credentials. This may happen when an attacker is trying to pretend to be forum.z.cash, or a WiFi sign-in screen has interrupted the connection. Your information is still secure because Microsoft Edge stopped the connection before any data was exchanged.

You can’t visit forum.z.cash at the moment because the website uses HSTS. Network errors and attacks are usually temporary, so this page will probably work later.

You cannot visit forum.z.cash in edge at all. I really dont know who to report this to now the ECC doesnt do much on the forums. (ive been getting this a while, so has @amiller )

[joshs]

Hi. We don’t operate or manage the forum. Suggest reaching out to @Shawn.

[Autotunafish]

Also its https://forum.zcashcommunity

[mistfpga]

you do run z.cash tho right?

because of my lazyness and the forums used to be on https://forums.z.cash - I press z in the address bar and I get the z.cash version.

forums.zcashcommunity.com which is under shawns control (and the zfnds) is fine with its certificate.

It is z.cash’s cert that will not validate the forums because of the domain difference (its easy to fix, update the cert or ditch htttps)

@Shawn is this your understanding of the situation too?

I am not sure what shawn or the zfnd can do about this

Oh Im using edge for this example because it doesnt let you bypass the error like FF

[Shawn]

@mistfpga

It is z.cash’s cert that will not validate the forums because of the domain difference (its easy to fix, update the cert or ditch htttps)

@Shawn is this your understanding of the situation too?

Looks like it’s a Discourse issue:

When we migrated to forum.zcashcommunity.com from forum.z.cash they dropped the old certificate since it’s not needed anymore.

Best thing to do to fix it would be to have z.cash domain owner set up a DNS record (301 permanent re-direct) to the new URL to prevent the browser from trying to fetch a non-existent certificate from Discourse.

Or, simply update your shortcuts and never use the old URL again

[ryan.taylor]

Thanks for pointing this out @mistfpga it’s fixed now.

[amiller]

Thank you! I can refresh so much happier now