HTTPS for fridge.ubuntu.com not working

Elizabeth K. Joseph lyz at ubuntu.com
Wed Jan 14 18:15:45 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Elizabeth K. Joseph <lyz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:03 AM, David Seaward <dseaward925 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> When I visit https://fridge.ubuntu.com instead of
>> http://fridge.ubuntu.com I get redirected to Ubuntu SSO and never get
>> back to the Fridge.
>>
>> Is this a bug? I ask because the default HTTPS Everywhere ruleset
>> takes me there, and I'll need to tweak it if Fridge does not (yet?)
>> support HTTPS. On the other hand, if Fridge is supposed to be
>> available over HTTPS and this is an easy-to-fix bug, I can keep the
>> ruleset as-is.
>
> Since we use Ubuntu SSO (no password-based auth allowed), most
> WordPress sites that Canonical manages on't bother having SSL
> certificates themselves, this includes the fridge.
>
> But the behavior of redirecting to the Ubuntu SSO site is not right,
> so I'll open a ticket with the Canonical sysadmins to see if they can
> do something about this, even if it's just a redirect to http. Thanks
> for letting us know!

Since we're not using SSL, they've gone ahead and redirected https
requests for fridge to http.

-- 
Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2



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