HTTPS links in notification e-mails from the Gentoo forum

fturco · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Dec 2010 Posts: 75

Hello.

I'm accessing the Gentoo forum via HTTPS only, but I get notification e-mails with HTTP links. Is it possible to change this and have HTTPS links in e-mails from the forum? I couldn't find such an option in my profile.

Thank you.

audiodef · Advocate Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 4952

I just did a quick test and it looks like you can just add the "s" to "http". Just copy the link from your mail client and change "http" to "https" before hitting enter. I don't remember ever seeing an option to receive notifications with https links.
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Ant P. · Veteran Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 1926 Location: UK

As a slightly less annoying workaround, you can use the HTTPS Everywhere extension.

audiodef · Advocate Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 4952

toralf · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 6:42 pm Post subject:

fturco · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Dec 2010 Posts: 75

Ant P. · Veteran Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 1926 Location: UK

audiodef · Advocate Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 4952

Ant P. · Veteran Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 1926 Location: UK

Here's a partial list of the differences from vanilla phpBB, you can see most of those are bespoke features. It's not actually a lot of code to reimplement them, but ensuring an upgrade doesn't break all the content currently here would be a huge amount of work.

BoneKracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1488 Location: U.S.A.

What's the point? It's a self-signed certificate anyway, isn't it?
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 6:09 pm Post subject:

BoneKracker,

Gentoo uses CAcert as the root certification authority.

However, most browsers don't ship with the CACert certificate installed. Yes, gentoo could provide a patch but its really up to uses whose certificates they want to trust.
Install the CAcert certificate, if you trust it, of course
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BoneKracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1488 Location: U.S.A.

My mistake.

My browser uses the system's root certificates (the /etc/ssl/cacertificates.crt file, which I understand is a consolidated representation of all the certificates in the package).. I see CAcert.org.pem in the directory, so I assume it's in the consolidated crt file. Yet bugzilla always comes up red (warning me there's an issue with the certificate), and the same happens if I try to use https with forums.gentoo.com.

What am I doing wrong?
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 7:10 pm Post subject:

BoneKracker,

I've always had to install the CAcert for it to be used. I've never looked in the certificate package.
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