[RAS] Security alerts on your author webpage

[Dan Hayes]

It would make sense that you wouldn't see the same issue on the other
sites.  blog and citec are external.  Ideas doesn't use https.

Thank you for bringing it to our attention though.  It is an issue
that we want to be aware of.

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Adrian Wood <adrian.wood at qeh.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dan  Many thanks for this investigation.  I have done some further tests,
> clicking on all the REPEC links in my monthly statistics email, which
> happened to arrive this morning, and discovered that I only get this warning
> on the links with 'authors' as the first word of the address - no problem
> with the addresses that start blog, citec or ideas.  To be clear, I never
> had any doubts about the security of the REPEC site, but just worried that
> the response I got might be causing general problems for you, which it
> sounds as if it isn't.   Adrian
>
>
>
> On 04/09/2013 20:37, Dan Hayes wrote:
>>
>> That's the problem.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
>>
>> -------
>>
>> Browsers with support for TLS server name indication[6]:
>>
>> Internet Explorer 7 or later, on Windows Vista or higher. Does not
>> work on Windows XP, even Internet Explorer 8 (because the support of
>> this feature is not browser version dependent, it depends on SChannel
>> system component which introduced the support of TLS SNI extension,
>> starting from Windows Vista, not XP).[7]
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Adrian Wood <adrian.wood at qeh.ox.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> It's Windows XP Professional version 2002 service pack 3.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/09/2013 14:54, Dan Hayes wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What operating system (and versions) are you using?
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Adrian Wood <adrian.wood at qeh.ox.ac.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your message.  I'm using IE 8, not 6.   Adrian
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 02/09/2013 19:16, 'Christian Zimmermann' wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We had one other user reporting a similar problem a few weeks ago. We
>>>>>> think this may be due to Internet Explorer 6 that is not handling
>>>>>> properly
>>>>>> wildcard security certificates. Are you using IE6? If not, could you
>>>>>> give me
>>>>>> more details?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 2 Sep 2013, Thomas Krichel wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    Adrian Wood writes
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Just to mention that my attempts to access the author page are
>>>>>>>> generating the following response from Internet Explorer.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There is a problem with this website's security certificate.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    Thank you for reporting this.
>>>>>>>    I don't see this with opera or firefox, but I trust we will
>>>>>>>    investigate.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    Cheers,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    Thomas Krichel                  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
>>>>>>>                                                skype:thomaskrichel
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>> http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>> Professor Emeritus of International Development
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>>> Adrian Wood
>>> Professor Emeritus of International Development
>>> University of Oxford
>>> Queen Elizabeth House
>>> Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB
>>>
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> Adrian Wood
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> University of Oxford
> Queen Elizabeth House
> Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB
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