Test project Albert@Home now uses HTTPS

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Bikeman (Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein)
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3 May 2013 9:21:14 UTC
Topic 84923
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    Dear volunteers

    We have switched our test project, Albert@Home, to use HTTPS instead of plain HTTP. This applies not just to the Web pages, but also to the communication between the BOINC client and the project site.

    We'd like to use this as a test to see if this would cause any problems for volunteers (proxies, (personal) firewalls, etc). If you have any problems (unable to connect, unable to get tasks, warning messages while browsing the site.....anything that is unusual), you might not be able to post in this forum on Albert, so please feel free to report at Einstein@Home, e.g. here:

    http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=10095

    Cheers
    HB

    DF1DX
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    Test project Albert@Home now uses HTTPS

    3 May 2013 10:00:18 UTC
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      Hello Bikeman,

      Win7-64 and Boinc 7.0.64:

      03-May-2013 11:51:12 [Albert@Home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
      03-May-2013 11:51:12 [Albert@Home] Requesting new tasks for ATI
      03-May-2013 11:51:14 [Albert@Home] Scheduler request failed: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates

      Jürgen

      Andrew Dicker
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      RE: 03-May-2013 11:51:14

      3 May 2013 10:51:31 UTC
      Message 79742 in response to message 79741
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        Quote:

        03-May-2013 11:51:14 [Albert@Home] Scheduler request failed: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates

        Experiencing the same issue. Mac OS X.8.4, BOINC 7.0.65. Einstein works still.

        [AF>France>Astro]Spica
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        same problem for me...

        3 May 2013 11:00:04 UTC
        Message 79743 in response to message 79742
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          same problem for me...

          B Johansson
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          Same problem Windows

          3 May 2013 11:06:56 UTC
          Message 79744
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            Same problem Windows 7,vista,linux

            4760 Albert@Home 2013-05-03 12:25:54 Scheduler request failed: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates

            Bikeman (Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein)
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            I see...I notified our admin

            3 May 2013 11:09:55 UTC
            Message 79745
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              I see...I notified our admin at the UWM .

              Cheers
              HB

              Neil Newell
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              Same issue being reported in

              3 May 2013 11:16:56 UTC
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                Same issue being reported in this thread, I believe. The website certificate was issued by "InCommon Server CA" on 1st May; older versions of Firefox (and presumably other browsers) don't seem to recognise this CA. My Albert hosts appear unaffected so far - relatively recent set-ups though so maybe they know the CA.

                Edit: My hosts are affected too - though they're still ploughing through old jobs.

                Richard Haselgrove
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                RE: Same issue being

                3 May 2013 11:23:01 UTC
                Message 79747 in response to message 79746
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                  Quote:
                  Same issue being reported in this thread, I believe. The website certificate was issued by "InCommon Server CA" on 1st May; older versions of Firefox (and presumably other browsers) don't seem to recognise this CA. My hosts appear unaffected so far - relatively recent set-ups though so maybe they know the CA.


                  If it's a new CA, then the certificate will need to be added to BOINC's "ca-bundle.crt" file as well - and that will be difficult to do retrospectively.

                  I didn't want to spam the boards with my stats - just milestone theads - but apparently signatures are no longer optional. Follow the link if you're interested.

                  http://www.boincsynergy.com/images/stats/comb-3475.jpg

                  Alex
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                  I tried to add Albert on my

                  3 May 2013 12:53:23 UTC
                  Message 79748
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                    I tried to add Albert on my notebook.

                    03.05.2013 14:47:22 | | Fetching configuration file from https://albert.phys.uwm.edu/get_project_config.php
                    03.05.2013 14:47:27 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
                    03.05.2013 14:47:31 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
                    03.05.2013 14:47:50 | | Fetching configuration file from https://albert.phys.uwm.edu/get_project_config.php
                    03.05.2013 14:47:54 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
                    03.05.2013 14:47:56 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

                    Richard Haselgrove
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                    Got through successfully

                    3 May 2013 13:28:01 UTC
                    Message 79749
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                      Got through successfully about 10 minutes ago:

                      03/05/2013 14:18:36 | Albert@Home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
03/05/2013 14:18:36 | Albert@Home | Reporting 15 completed tasks
03/05/2013 14:18:42 | Albert@Home | Scheduler request completed: got 17 new tasks

                      I didn't want to spam the boards with my stats - just milestone theads - but apparently signatures are no longer optional. Follow the link if you're interested.

                      http://www.boincsynergy.com/images/stats/comb-3475.jpg

                      Bikeman (Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein)
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                      We switched back to HTTP for

                      3 May 2013 14:09:21 UTC
                      Message 79750
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                        We switched back to HTTP for now, there could be intermittent glitches because of further tests to fix the certificate problem, tho.

                        Cheers
                        HB

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