We got our padlock !

Post by **Philip** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 11:56 am

SpeedGuide, and the forums are moving to a secure "https" variant of the entire site. Please update your links to https:// , and excuse the construction dust while we make sure everything is working properly.

This will help secure all user communications, passwords, as well as prevent your internet activity being monitored by your ISP, or anyone in the middle of a connection. We were planning this for a long time, but we were nudged by the repeal of the FCC online privacy regulations. We've always valued user privacy and security, and SSL simply makes sense, especially with user logins/passwords, and other sensitive info.

Please still try to keep it clean in the General forum.

Oh and MadDoc, sorry if this is not the padlock you were looking for

MadDoctor · Post by **MadDoctor** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:01 pm

Philip wrote:Oh and MadDoc, sorry if this is not the padlock you were looking for

crap

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 8:16 am

I have to enter my password twice to get in. I'll get you the exact error message.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 8:32 am

CableDude wrote:I have to enter my password twice to get in. I'll get you the exact error message.

vBulletin Message

Invalid Redirect URL (http://www.speedguide.net/forums/forum.php)

nwrickert · Post by **nwrickert** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 9:07 am

Philip wrote:Please update your links to https:// , ...

I tried that. And Firefox refused to connected. So I had to change the link back to "http:".

Your connection is not secure

The owner of forums.speedguide.net has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website.

The link that gave this message was

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https://forums.speedguide.net

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 9:40 am

CableDude wrote:vBulletin Message

Invalid Redirect URL (http://www.speedguide.net/forums/forum.php)

Chrome/58.0.3029.81 I don't use firefox.

Post by **Philip** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 10:46 am

nwrickert wrote:I tried that. And Firefox refused to connected. So I had to change the link back to "http:".

The link that gave this message was
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https://forums.speedguide.net

The correct location for the forums hasn't been "forums.speedguide.net" for a couple of years now... It is at https://www.speedguide.net/forums/ (we have no SSL certificate for the forums.speedguide.net subtomain, only for www, hence the error).

Post by **Philip** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 11:28 am

CableDude wrote:I have to enter my password twice to get in. I'll get you the exact error message.

The issue exists when you try to login to the non-secure variant of the page (i.e. http vs https)... Forced https on forums now, shouldn't happen anymore.

The main site still works in both variants, until everything works 100% over SSL/TLS

nwrickert · Post by **nwrickert** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 2:44 pm

Philip wrote:The correct location for the forums hasn't been "forums.speedguide.net" for a couple of years now... It is at https://www.speedguide.net/forums/ (we have no SSL certificate for the forums.speedguide.net subtomain, only for www, hence the error).

Thanks. I've update my bookmark.

Paft · Post by **Paft** » Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:47 pm

Excellent. I was surprised when you didn't jump on it when Let's Encrypt became popular.