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It has been a while now that the site no longer appears as secure. What happened? Is our saved information still secure?

edit: Just checked the shopping site it is showing as secure. Will users of the forum have any security risks?

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I noticed when I log into the forum with my phone it gives that “not secure” warning. I’ve seen that before when a site doesn’t get their certificate renewed?

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Hi Flars & WMNoob,

Thanks for pointing this out. We had an image on the page, our logo, that was set as http:// that was the piece on the page that made it appear unsecured. All of the communications, like login, were/are being transmitted by HTTPS / SSL.

I have made the changes to the image URL and now it locks up on the browser with Green lock and “Secure” on it.

Again thanks for pointing this out!

Cheers,
Northern Brewer.

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Thank you for the quick reply.

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Thanks! Nice catch @flars

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Kudos go to @sneezles61 for reminding me not to “wait and see”.

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Still showing “site is not secure” Firefox 59.0.3

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The site still does not show as secure with Chrome, Firefox, and Explorer. Not being blocked by my anti-virus though.

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I agree, also says not secure on my Chrome.

:beers:
Rad

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I’m on Chrome Version 66.0.3359.170, and it is secure.

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I updated to Version 66.0.3359.170 and relaunched. Site still not showing as secure. Now to do a computer restart.

Still not showing as secure after the update and computer restart. Must be something in my settings or perhaps cookies if @voltron’s computer is showing secure.

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Mine shows there isn’t a RED LETTER warning… So I’m good… Not that I can do anything if its still acting weird… Flars, your being way too kind… a little kick in the shin would’ve worked!:grin: Sneezles61
I must say I always go and delete previous posts… So I must delete cookies every time?

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I don’t know. I cleared my cookies and the site still does not show as secure. Maybe I’ll try something else tomorrow.

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Can’t find any method to show the site as secure. I guess I’ll just go on Trust and Faith helped by my anti virus and VPN software.

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There is a trend for web sites to automagically redirect to https if the initial web page request is just http. If I enter www.google.com in the address bar, the initial request is often http (YMMV if you use a different browser), but the google web site will “redirect” the request to use https.

With Firefox v60 (my current browser of choice), if I enter forum.northernbrewer.com/latest, it will use http protocol (and the logon page is not secure). If I enter https://forum.northernbrewer.com/latest (via a bookmark), it will use https protocol, so the logon page shows as being secure.

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Well, there a point… As I type in , then Siri suggests where to go… Sneezles61

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Ohhhhhh, now I see!

When I directly navigate here, the site is secure, however when following the link at the bottom of the NB site, it is not secure.

@NB-Marketing - something to look into, perhaps?

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Thank you. I typed NB Forum into Google. Followed link. Came up as secure. Now bookmark and see if it still comes up as secure next start up.

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Thanks Voltron, I was trying to figure out how you guys were still seeing it like that.

I’ve changed the link on the footer.

Cheers,

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