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Tagged: ssl

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Invalid/Malformed SSL Certificates on OSX

OSX users, welcome back. Recently, I enabled SSL by default for this site. If you try and browse to a non-HTTPS version of this site, you’ll be instantly redirected to the HTTPS version without loading any content. There’s no real security reason behind this, it’s just another thing I wanted to play around with and worry not, i’ll be doing...

Mail Host (SSL): mail.root 0

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Mail Host (SSL): mail.root

On my cPanel server, I noticed that users where being given the incorrect FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name, e.g example.com) for mail.root as the SSL address for the mail server. This is odd, since there is no where to actually configure the SSL host address. After a bit of poking around, it seems it sets the address based upon the...