Tuesday, June 7, 2011

SSL certificate weirdness

Recently we moved the WOU forums server to a better machine, but then we noticed that Internet Explorer was no longer accepting the server's SSL certificate, so it couldn't make a secure connection. Firefox, on the other hand, was perfectly fine with the cert and established a perfectly valid SSL connection.

Those of you who are all up on modern web security practices probably recognize this problem already, but I didn't have the relevant information and was completely boggled.