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Bug 72182 - www.*.wikimedia.org has a bad certificate
www.*.wikimedia.org has a bad certificate
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
SSL related (Other open bugs)
wmf-deployment
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: Unprioritized normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2014-10-17 12:36 UTC by Douglas Gardner
Modified: 2014-10-17 12:48 UTC (History)
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Description Douglas Gardner 2014-10-17 12:36:30 UTC 
Sites such as www.en.wikipedia.org and www.commons.wikimedia.org redirect to their non-www equivalents (en.wikipedia.org, commons.wikimedia.org). However, when accessing these www. sites over HTTPS there is a host mismatch, as wildcard certificates are not valid for multiple levels of subdomain. As such, visiting https://www.en.wikipedia.org throws an invalid certificate error.
Comment 1 Sam Reed (reedy) 2014-10-17 12:41:38 UTC 
Why are you visitng these domains?

There isn't any nice way of fixing this, as WMF isn't going to waste money on buying sub-subdomain SSL certs...
Comment 2 MZMcBride 2014-10-17 12:45:19 UTC 
(In reply to Sam Reed (reedy) from comment #1)
> Why are you visiting these domains?

As I understand it, there's a reason that www.commons.wikimedia.org and similar URLs were created: it's convention and standard practice for this type of domain format to function properly. There are older Bugzilla bugs about this, I believe.
Comment 3 MZMcBride 2014-10-17 12:48:47 UTC 
(In reply to MZMcBride from comment #2)
> There are older Bugzilla bugs about this, I believe.

Specifically bug 1698.
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