Fedora home server using core 9

[Les Mikesell]

Alan Cox wrote:
>> Did you also try it as just plain HTTP?  You get redirected to HTTPS.
> 
> Which for a self signed certificate is a bit of waste and proves nothing
> really.
> 
> You might be talking to the web site, you might be talking to a fake site
> proxying the web site. DNS is not secure so you don't know. If it is a
> fake that is relaying the connection you just lost.
> 
> At least http:// makes you aware and uncomfortable in doing stupid things.

Unless, of course, you have an out-of-band way of receiving a matching 
certificate, in which case a self-signed version might be even more 
trustworthy than the commercial services.  That might be the case for 
some folks using the site in question.

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   Les Mikesell
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