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Re: From the chicago police website

From Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com>
Newsgroups chi.internet
Subject Re: From the chicago police website
Date 2016-06-20 23:43 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID <nk9v2n$sft$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)
References <nk39h0$1beq$1@gioia.aioe.org> <000a9bee-c985-4ebd-b867-f730acb9912d@googlegroups.com> <nk5uoe$6rm$1@remote5bge0.ripco.com> <slrnnmdgun.3kl.glg@ftupet.ftupet.com> <nk7ck2$jrg$1@ftupet.ftupet.com>

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jamie <jamie@ftupet.com> wrote:
> In article <slrnnmdgun.3kl.glg@ftupet.ftupet.com>,
> Geoff Gass  <glg@tanzenmb.com> wrote:
>>Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
>>> Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> LOL.  Isn't there a single IT guy at CPD who isn't sleeping?
>>>> Fat chance I ever use IE on the open Intertubes.
>>>
>>>
>>> For what it's worth, on the mac, Firefox does exactly the same thing but
>>> Safari (the default mac browser) is fine.
>>>
>>> What it seems like is Firefox is picking up somewhere it's supposed to be
>>> a secure connection (https) but isn't. And it's not.
>>>
>>> Only idea, but it should trip up other browsers, is if they had a cert for
>>> ssl connects and quit using it. Like on webmail.ripco.com, you can just enter
>>> that or with the http:// bit, but once it connects, it does a automatic
>>> redirect to the secure port (https://).
>>>
>>> Else it's some feature of Firefox expecting ssl connections anywhere, which
>>> sounds as stupid as something they would try to do. They seem to like to
>>> tinker with it that way, usually backing it off later.
>>
>>http://portal.chicagopolice.org is redirecting to
>>https://portal.chicagopolice.org, it is not firefox trying to do that.  In IE,
>>I eventually get redirected to http://home.chicagopolice.org/.  I'm not sure
>>what FF doesn't like about the https site, it's TLS 1.0, which is bad, but I
>>don't think FF outright blocks it.  Where did Mark get the link to portal?
> 
> FWIW, IE is the official browser of the City of Chicago.  :(

At least the city made one correct IT decision.

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RE: From the chicago police website nobody@nowhere.invalid (Will Renkel) - 2016-06-18 10:58 +0000
  Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-18 12:17 -0700
    Re: From the chicago police website Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-06-19 11:13 +0000
      Re: From the chicago police website Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-06-19 16:09 +0000
        Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-19 11:36 -0700
        Re: From the chicago police website jamie@ftupet.com (jamie) - 2016-06-20 00:16 +0000
          Re: From the chicago police website barbie gee <booger@nosespam.com> - 2016-06-20 17:52 -0500
          Re: From the chicago police website Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-06-20 23:43 +0000
            Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-20 17:25 -0700
              Re: From the chicago police website Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-06-22 04:42 +0000
                Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-22 10:40 -0700
                Re: From the chicago police website Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-06-22 19:45 +0000
                Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-22 13:36 -0700
                Re: From the chicago police website Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-06-22 22:36 +0000
                Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-22 16:08 -0700
                Re: From the chicago police website smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2016-06-22 19:03 -0500
                Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-22 17:38 -0700
                Re: From the chicago police website Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-06-23 06:02 +0000
                Re: From the chicago police website Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-06-23 10:49 +0000
                Re: From the chicago police website Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-06-23 20:44 +0000
                Re: From the chicago police website smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2016-06-22 19:01 -0500

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