It still works if https, but the website appropriately tells you that the website 'isn't secure' because there's a certificate out of date.
Using http is fine because you're just trying to access a webpage and not do any sort of transactions, but not really a good general practice to do to just make things 'work'.
Yeah, looks like 'trustify' is potentially his hosting platform and something's wrong with the certificates.
If it isn't his site and is just a complete 1:1 replica, I'm not sure what that would achieve except mess up his analytics, which could be the case. Or maybe someone's trying to inject malware into our computers through it? Hmm
I tried to go through a link he posted and through google, and they all result in the same untrusted certificate.
I would guess just don't put your billing details into his site (joking, I don't think he has anything like that on there)
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 30.5 ms ] thread" Firefox does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not valid for paulgraham.com. "
Using http is fine because you're just trying to access a webpage and not do any sort of transactions, but not really a good general practice to do to just make things 'work'.
If it isn't his site and is just a complete 1:1 replica, I'm not sure what that would achieve except mess up his analytics, which could be the case. Or maybe someone's trying to inject malware into our computers through it? Hmm
I tried to go through a link he posted and through google, and they all result in the same untrusted certificate.
I would guess just don't put your billing details into his site (joking, I don't think he has anything like that on there)
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