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5+ day, 5+ hour ago (716+ words) Chrome stops a page and prints NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID when the name written on a site’s SSL certificate does not match the address you asked for. Most cases trace back to the server. A smaller share come from your own device, a…...
AutoHttps: a zero-dependency automatic HTTPS library for ASP.NET Core / Kestrel
1+ week, 2+ day ago (235+ words) Hi. I maintain a library called AutoHttps. It gets a real TLS certificate for your ASP.NET Core app from Let's Encrypt (or any ACME certificate authority) and renews it automatically. You add the package, set three values, and Kestrel…...
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Setting up the Burp Suite certificate in Firefox
2+ week, 3+ day ago (877+ words) A Burp Suite certificate in Firefox is what lets the proxy read your HTTPS traffic without throwing security warnings on every page. Firefox keeps its own certificate store instead of using the operating system’s, so importing Burp’s CA certificate here…...
The Certificate That Expired at 2:03 AM
3+ week, 49+ min ago (439+ words) https://appdirs.com/ At 2:02 AM, everything was working. At 2:03 AM, users started receiving connection errors. The servers were running. CPU and memory were …...