SSL errors from a web site

Software
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Reports

This site can’t provide a secure connectionruhr.social sent an invalid response.
Try running Windows Network Diagnostics.
ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR

:unamused:

~s

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Works for me (Firefox on Linux). May have been a temporary glitch in their web server, which they have now fixed, or …

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It suggests it’s their SSL.
I know all the possible reasons.
The URL resulted to:

https://ruhr.social/@agx/114365296635619924
I changed 3 numbers in the above

Instead of the link above provided, I just used
https://ruhr.social

and then I tried

FireFox

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to ruhr.social. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

So maybe you looked at a cache, a Cloud cache or your browser doesn’t care about SSL/TSL.

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It’s still fudging the SSL.

I disabled all my security and still get the same results.

The full URL is:
https://ruhr.social/@agx/114365296635619924

The site is the problem, (https://ruhr.social) still shows “ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR”

Too bad. Would be a interesting read.

~s

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Another anti-ai-anti-bot get in the way. From your link, I get:

stupid-anti-bot
stupid-anti-bot494×594 29.9 KB

and all it does is waste time waiting to see if it will wake up or play dead - it’s dead.
I hate those things - more often than not, they frustrate people who leave and go elsewhere. I don’t know which anti-stalker to to allow stalking my device to get past stuff like this. I won’t give up my rights to privacy - period.

ADDENDUM:
I just checked with all security down. It’s not that, it must be the browser is not one of Microsoft’s stalkware, so I tried FireFox and the same image shows up except it has a request to put comp at risk:

Sadly, you must enable JavaScript to get past this challenge.

Thanks any way
~s

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Unconvinced. It still works for me. Can you demonstrate that it fails to work for anyone besides yourself?

Nothing is being fudged, in my opinion. There is a legitimate problem (for you) but such errors are not usually caused by fudging at their end, particularly when only one user encounters the error. Self-signed certificates / expired certificates / expired CA certificates … yes, those are caused at their end.

Probably the two things that I would be checking if I were you are:

  • Is your software up to date?
  • What is your internet connection in terms of the equipment involved and configuration thereof?

As an aside, as Purism is itself now using Anubis, you can find a fair bit of other discussion already in this forum about it.

Yeah, I totally get it. People do annoying things on the internet. Web site operators deploy countermeasures. You and I and other regular users are collateral damage.

The good points of Anubis:

  • No action at all is required on your part. No stupid crosswalks, traffic lights, buses, …
  • It only introduces a small delay on first use.

The bad point:

  • Yes, you must have Javascript enabled.
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