Firefox Security Issues: Certificate Problems Etc

  • Unknown's avatar
    6879109k · Member ·

    I just converted my site yesterday. I am getting notices of certificate problems (I have screen prints I can send) and that someone might be tampering with my connection – part of the warning message. This happens when I sign out. I was unable to validate my links to google and yahoo etc as well. They came back saying my own site was not valid. Finally, some of my photos seems to link to sites with slightly different names than the jdnphotosdotcom.wordpress.com site. Yesterday some had a “files” in between. The combination of all these symptoms makes me think there is something not right with either the way the site got created (I did have problems using store and my process was interrupted. I had to try it a couple times.) HELP. I’ve sent support emails aplenty – with no response.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    I’m in the process of tracking down your support requests and will respond to each shortly.

    To address the main issue here, this is not actually a security issue, but more of a misguided warning.

    All of your Dashboard work is passed through a secure SSL certificate. The issue here is that we can’t provide a signed certificate for every registered domain. So, while you have mapped jdnphotos.com, the certificate remains signed for WordPress.com. As far as your browser is concerned, this means that WordPress.com may be “hijacking” your connection details, which of course is perfectly fine in this case.

    As for the file URLs, though you have mapped a domain, the file URLs will still appear to be part of the un-mapped domain.

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