[cups.bugs] [MOD] STR #4271: the https certicate of www.cups.org is pointing to svn.easysw.com

[Michael Sweet]

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Franz,

This is a side-effect of how the current server is hosted.  As you may or
may not know, CUPS was originally developed by Easy Software Products and
cups.org is still hosted by that web server.  Since many web browsers
still don't specify the hostname during SSL negotiation, the certificate
selection defaults to the IP address that is used, which means you get the
certificate for "svn.easysw.com" instead of "www.cups.org".

We are in the process of moving cups.org onto Apple-managed servers which
will not have this problem. In the meantime all I can suggest is to tell
your web browser to accept the certificate for www.cups.org (it is a check
box in Safari, not sure for the other browsers off-hand) so that you don't
keep getting the warning. When the cert changes then all of the browsers
will re-check as needed.

Link: https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4271
Version: Web Site
Fix Version: Web Site