Tablet reports website connection insecure won't connect

littlerock

I tried last night to log on, via my android tablet and local wifi, to a new website set up by some US friends. Tablet reported it was an insecure connection and would not connect. Our wifi here is via our Virgin Superhub which I believe is WPA maybe even WPA2 security. So why is tablet saying connection is insecure?

Collabora

littlerock wrote: »

I tried last night to log on, via my android tablet and local wifi, to a new website set up by some US friends. Tablet reported it was an insecure connection and would not connect. Our wifi here is via our Virgin Superhub which I believe is WPA maybe even WPA2 security. So why is tablet saying connection is insecure?

their should be a link asking if you want to ignore the warning. i bet the site URL was like this

[STRIKE]https[/STRIKE]://mysite.com

which just means the site does not have a valid SSL certificate, but the site owner has set the links over https

littlerock

It does indeed look like that.

I can contact them via facebook, what should I say is the problem? That they have used https but without an SSL certificate?. Does this mean other people will have a similar access problem?.

poppy10_2

littlerock wrote: »

It does indeed look like that.

I can contact them via facebook, what should I say is the problem? That they have used https but without an SSL certificate?. Does this mean other people will have a similar access problem?.

Yes, the problem is at their end, not yours. Most likely they are using an invalid or insecure SSL certificate, which will create warnings in most modern browsers. Old browsers would ignore the issues and let you browse the site anyway, but these days there is more of a focus on security.

It's not a problem to bypass the warning and click through anyway, but I wouldn't enter any private/confidential information into the site

Collabora

poppy10 wrote: »

Most likely they are using an invalid or insecure SSL certificate,

other option is an incorrectly installed SSL certificate. or they are using a website script have have set the settings to https, so the pages will try and open under https and through the warning as they have not SSL certificate

Collabora

littlerock wrote: »

It does indeed look like that.

I can contact them via facebook, what should I say is the problem? That they have used https but without an SSL certificate?. Does this mean other people will have a similar access problem?.

what is the website? i can check and say exactly what the issue is.

you could also add the domain here https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html and this will tell you if it has an SSL

littlerock

It's https://www.stormtrack.org. It works on my desktop just not on my tablet.

poppy10_2

littlerock wrote: »

It's www.stormtrack.org. It works on my desktop just not on my tablet.

Yeah, it's a miconfiguration on the part of the website. Nothing you can do. Apart from emailing the owner and asking them to read:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27892873/ssl-cert-err-cert-authority-invalid-on-mobile-chrome-only