WHEN links can't be connected?

Question

In trying to open (with a laugh) the Tyson link on Firefox AND Safari, both sites said that the way it's connected is not allowed because it's not safe, verified, certificated enough: "Your connection is not secure:  "The owner of index.php has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website." And "

Report errors like this to help Mozilla identify misconfigured sites"
And if I push it, it goes to referencing bing.com which I don't identify as connected with me at all.

CAN YOU FIX THIS PROBLEM That 2 servers have with w-tree links? (the other is Safari. Safari's response is the same.)

Tech crew needs this one, I think. I tried to send it there, and it also made a suggestion of asking G2G.
––Thanks for everything, regardless!

Roberta

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...maybe you could copy and paste this "Tyson link"? (whatever that is) here on the G2G so others can have a look.

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It is: "Connection of the Month: Check out how you're connected to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist and science educator, on our global family tree." See why I was laughing? unless we're related through a slaveholder or a "genius-in-common" cousin, believe me, we aren't connected. :>) 

Apparently, this problem was reported to have been fixed in June.

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Yes, it's probably a slave holder, although the profile doesn't say so. My connection is also through this line.

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Montgomery-1811

Does that link work? Considering the lack of a valid certificate, I find it odd that your browsers let you access wikitree at all.

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Firefox and safari are not "sites" or "servers", they are browsers on your own PC. Maybe you need to click on Tools at the top of your browser, select Options and go to Security and make the response to outdated certificates less extreme?

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Macs are a tad differently organized, but I did follow your advice by using Firefox's preferences and then security and typing in our website plus Allow.

Thanks, I hope it works.

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Sorry to be getting back to you so tardily, Eva:  Yes the link you sent (montgomery) does open.  Please tell me what a "slave holder" is. And thanks in advance is due you, I'm guessing.

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"Slave holder". Well, you originally wrote "slaveholder", I don't know why I put a space in there.

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Those browsers are crazy.  It's nothing to do with security, it's just an incorrect link.  The www.wikitree.com bit is missing. 

Somebody working on the server has posted a "local" link that doesn't work across the net, that's all.

What page did you find the link on?

PS corrected version

https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:Connection&action=connect&person1Name=Tyson-646&person2Name=Berg-1880

PPS why doesn't that work?

PPPS just the &$%! G2G widget link thingy.  Works now.

 

 

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I must have been writing about my relative (one of the last) who owned slaves in the central Southern states, Shadrach Tootle Dixon. Please pardon my forgetting the original context.

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I stand corrected as usual:  not servers but browsers. Thanks.

Thanks among other things to be thankful for here.

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I stand corrected: I'll change it: not servers but browsers. Thanks.

Thanks among other things to be thankful for here.

Answer 1

My browser tells me - but in a much more subdued fashion - that the whole of wikitree is not secure. I have to notice the absence of a green padlock up in the FireFox navigation bar and click on the 'i' for the information.

This has to do with security certificates used on the wikitree webservers, the workings of which is beyond my understanding. All I know is that they get outdated now and then.

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Thank you, Eva! Without the htpps: in front of the web address, Eva, you're right: the whole site isn't secure. I'm sure that Chris Whitten or other prime mover knows about why we don't have that feature. If they could do it, I'm pretty sure they would.

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Uhm, my browser kindly hides the http part of all addresses. But I just tried - it should be https: BTW, not double p but double t - and it seems that an https-address just redirects to an http address. Should we worry?

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People like Chris Whitten would know, not I. In most cases, it hasn't mattered in my use of W-tree. But compared with many here, I'm no base of comparison, just a newbie.

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Who knows the answer to Eva's question?