Website Problem

For some reason, I cannot access SRB2's main website and its wiki. However, I can use this Message Board and the Master Server.

I'm not sure if it's because I use the Wii U's browser, but I was wondering if there was a way to fix it, or if someone else has this problem.

MrBreada said:

For some reason, I cannot access SRB2's main website and its wiki. However, I can use this Message Board and the Master Server.

I'm not sure if it's because I use the Wii U's browser, but I was wondering if there was a way to fix it, or if someone else has this problem.

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I have same problem with my Chrome :/

Decided to check this myself, since someone (Xkower8181) on computer reported this too. I can't access srb2.org at all, but wiki.srb2.org responded after about a minute. *Tries again to make sure, then both sites load in a few seconds* Oh. Okay, seems to be fixed(?) now.

Zwip-Zwap Zapony said:

Decided to check this myself, since someone (Xkower8181) on computer reported this too. I can't access srb2.org at all, but wiki.srb2.org responded after about a minute. *Tries again to make sure, then both sites load in a few seconds* Oh. Okay, seems to be fixed(?) now.

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For me it even wiki doesn't work :(

Hm. I found a half-solution. I have to remove the s in https://srb2.org. Security errors on the Wii U browser prevent me from accessing it.

MrBreada said:

Hm. I found a half-solution. I have to remove the s in https://srb2.org. Security errors on the Wii U browser prevent me from accessing it.

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That works on my opera which is on the second computer and it doesn't even work with chrome anyway

The current HTTPS certificate for srb2.org (and the message board) has been issued at 2015-03-23. The previous certificate has probably expired about at that time. I assume that this caused your problems.

For example, if your Wii U's date and time is misconfigured, it might "think" that the current date is before 2015-03-23. It will then show a warning because it "thinks" that the certificate is not yet valid. So the first thing you might want to check is if your clock is set correctly. ^.^

On your personal computer, an empty BIOS battery might cause problems.

I apologize for the bump, but it seems that the website problem is on every device I've used, including phones. At first I thought it was only the Wii U.

The only way I can fix this is removing the s in https.

Server Name Indication

Oh, why didn't I think of this before?

Some months ago, I think, srb2.org started using CloudFlare. CloudFlare offers free "Universal SSL" for every website - normally one has to pay for SSL certificates. To be able to offer this, CloudFlare uses a technology called "Server Name Indication" (SNI) that allows them to use the same certificate for many different domains. However, some outdated operating systems and browsers do not support SNI.

srb2.org and mb.srb2.org are now using SNI, and the main site, srb2.org even uses HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) to force your browser to always open the site via HTTPS, no matter if you manually remove the "s" from "https". See the technical differences of both domains by clicking here and here.

What can you do now?

If you're trying to open the website on your desktop PC, you're very likely using Windows XP or a very outdated browser, or both. Please read this page if this is the case:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/end-support-help
(in a nutshell, stop using that system please, and upgrade to a newer Windows version. You should do that independently of this SSL issue anyway.)

If you're trying to open the website on a mobile device, that device is probably too outdated to get the needed updates - for example, some Android devices might not receive a newer Android version anymore. You can try to install the Chrome browser app to see if it fixes your problem; maybe only the built-in Android browser is unsupported. Later Android versions are using Chrome as default browser anyway.

And if that is not an option either, I've still got a workaround for reading: By using the Internet Archive's "save this website" function, you can force the Archive server to fetch a brand-new copy from any page you'd like to read, and then have a look at it, either with or without HTTPS. As the Internet Archive does not use SNI, even HTTPS will probably work on your device.
To save a page in the Internet Archive, just prepend "https://www.archive.org/save/" to the page name. For example, using the following link, you can very probably have a look at the Message Board main page with any device you like:

https://web.archive.org/save/mb.srb2.org/


Hope this helps! ^.^

After using Google Chrome, the problem was solved. Thanks, ToBeFree.

Hey, that's awesome! :) You're welcome.