Display of Sailwave results on secure (HTTPS://) website

My Club website has recently been upgraded, and now uses an https:// address, rather than http://

We have in the past uploaded our results from Sailwave running on a pc in the Club to an ftp site, from where they were displayed on the Club website. I’ve just found that all last years’ results have disappeared, to be replaced by an error message: “Content was blocked because it was not signed by a valid security certificate.”

Is there something which I can change in the Sailwave ftp or other settings to get round this, or is it something to be taken up with the web-site maintainer?

Thanks in anticipation of your help!

Best regards,

Ian Day

Hurst Castle Sailing Club

www.hcsc.org.uk

HI Ian,

You will need to speak to the person maintaining the ftp site and ask them to set up SSL for you, so that you can connect to that using https:// rather than http://

To avoid browsers complaining you will need to have a signed certificate set up rather than a self-generated one. But the guy looking after the ftp site should be able to sort all that for you.

Cheers

Keith

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From: sailwave@yahoogroups.com sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 06 February 2019 15:15
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sailwave] Display of Sailwave results on secure (HTTPS://) website

My Club website has recently been upgraded, and now uses an https:// address, rather than http://

We have in the past uploaded our results from Sailwave running on a pc in the Club to an ftp site, from where they were displayed on the Club website. I’ve just found that all last years’ results have disappeared, to be replaced by an error message: “Content was blocked because it was not signed by a valid security certificate.”

Is there something which I can change in the Sailwave ftp or other settings to get round this, or is it something to be taken up with the web-site maintainer?

Thanks in anticipation of your help!

Best regards,

Ian Day

Hurst Castle Sailing Club

www.hcsc.org.uk

Thanks, Keith. I’ll go and have a tilt at that windmill!

Regards

Ian Day

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On 6 Feb 2019, at 15:22, ‘Keith Mountifield’ keith@mountifield.org [sailwave] sailwave@yahoogroups.com wrote:

HI Ian,

You will need to speak to the person maintaining the ftp site and ask them to set up SSL for you, so that you can connect to that using https:// rather than http://

To avoid browsers complaining you will need to have a signed certificate set up rather than a self-generated one. But the guy looking after the ftp site should be able to sort all that for you.

Cheers

Keith

From: sailwave@yahoogroups.com sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 06 February 2019 15:15
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sailwave] Display of Sailwave results on secure (HTTPS://) website

My Club website has recently been upgraded, and now uses an https:// address, rather than http://

We have in the past uploaded our results from Sailwave running on a pc in the Club to an ftp site, from where they were displayed on the Club website. I’ve just found that all last years’ results have disappeared, to be replaced by an error message: “Content was blocked because it was not signed by a valid security certificate.”

Is there something which I can change in the Sailwave ftp or other settings to get round this, or is it something to be taken up with the web-site maintainer?

Thanks in anticipation of your help!

Best regards,

Ian Day

Hurst Castle Sailing Club

www.hcsc.org.uk

Mmmm… So looking at your site - this is an example page:

https://results.hcsc.org.uk/Wednesday%20Early%20Series.htm

Flipping it back the http:// shows it fine. Having it as https:// is giving a security cert issue - the webserver is giving its security cert not your domain.

It looks like you sit results on a subdomain. That means you have three choices:

  • Link to a http:// page rather than https:// and it will display. BUT I suspect you may get other warnings about leaving secure domains on some browsers especially as it seems to be in a frame of some description.

OR - sign the https:// server - that means a second certificate which for most has a cost. (Although I can now get free certificates - but it needs your host to be willing to allow it). Your main site server is a LetsEncrypt Certificate so should be free so possibly the subdomain could be too?

OR - Move the results off the sub-domain into the main section - BUT i suspect thats been split for a reason.

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On 2019-02-06 15:14, ian54day@btinternet.com [sailwave] wrote:

My Club website has recently been upgraded, and now uses an https://
address, rather than http://

We have in the past uploaded our results from Sailwave running on a pc
in the Club to an ftp site, from where they were displayed on the Club
website. I’ve just found that all last years’ results have
disappeared, to be replaced by an error message: “Content was blocked
because it was not signed by a valid security certificate.”

Is there something which I can change in the Sailwave ftp or other
settings to get round this, or is it something to be taken up with the
web-site maintainer?

www.hcsc.org.uk