[Bioperl-l] Bad SSL certificate at bioperl.org

[Peter Cock]

Nothing as yet - I was hoping GitHub Pages would come up
with an officially recommended route as they have a large
and tech-savvy user base who'd use HTTPS.

Peter

On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Fields, Christopher J
<cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:
> Peter, what is biopython doing re: HTTPS for biopython.org?
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> chris
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> From: Bioperl-l
> <bioperl-l-bounces+cjfields=illinois.edu at mailman.open-bio.org> on behalf of
> Shyam Saladi <saladi1 at illinois.edu>
> Date: Thursday, September 14, 2017 at 11:01 PM
> To: Hilmar Lapp <hlapp at drycafe.net>
> Cc: Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>, Bioperl BioPerl
> <bioperl-l at bioperl.org>, Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] Bad SSL certificate at bioperl.org
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> Not sure, perhaps there was some change on Cloudflare's side recently. In
> case it's helpful, my "Crypto" configuration is here:
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/di47zjxp38yw0ar/Crypto_Cloudflare.pdf?dl=0
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> My personal site is similarly hosted with ghpages, and I set Cloudflare up
> about a month ago. HTTPS redirection seems to work ok (try
> http://shyam.saladi.org)
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> Shyam
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> On Sep 14, 2017 5:45 PM, "Hilmar Lapp" <hlapp at drycafe.net> wrote:
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> I thought activating that option required HTTPS and a valid SSL cert on the
> source site too. At least that’s what it seemed to be recently when I tried
> that (with my own website, also currently hosted off of Github Pages).
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>   -hilmar
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> On Sep 14, 2017, at 8:10 PM, Shyam Saladi <saladi1 at illinois.edu> wrote:
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> A minor point, but I think that Cloudflare can redirect http to https:
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> https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170536-How-do-I-redirect-all-visitors-to-HTTPS-SSL-
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> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Hilmar Lapp <hlapp at drycafe.net> wrote:
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> Not directly, that's correct.  However, there are at least three
> alternatives, each with various pros and cons.
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> 1) We could front the site with Cloudflare. This would give us a free SSL
> cert from Cloudflare. It would not redirect http to https, and would require
> moving DNS for the domain to Cloudflare.
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> 2) Proxy the traffic from Github.io through our Apache server on AWS. This
> would allow us to redirect http to https, and we'd use a Let's Encrypt SSL
> cert. For Apache the LE certbot can auto-renew, I think. In essence this is
> us doing some of what Cloudflare would do, except for DDOS protection, so
> the site would then have a single point of failure.
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> 3) Use Gitlab Pages for hosting. This would allow SSL certs for custom
> domains. My understanding is they also support Let's Encrypt for cert
> renewal, but I haven't tried that yet. Downside is that now we're hosting
> the repo in a different place than everything else Bioperl. I also don't
> know about redirecting http to https.
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> -hilmar
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> Sent from away
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>> On Sep 14, 2017, at 5:42 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> As far as I know, using your own domain with
>> GitHub pages and HTTPS is still not possible.
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>> Peter
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>>> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> Hi
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>>> If you access https://bioperl.org you will get a
>>> SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN
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>>> The problem is that current certificate is only valid for github.io
>>> domains.
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>>> Carnë
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