SSL Certificate expired on [cdn-business2.discourse.org]

Just an FYI, my antivirus is reporting that the SSL certificate on cdn-business2.discourse.org has expired. Looking at the certificate info, it looks like it expired on 9/15/2017.

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That CDN should no longer be in use. What site are you seeing this on?

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wanikani.com, and email notifications from the same.
Should I let them know directly? I know Discourse hosts them.

We do host them so that’s on us. Will look into this.

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I’m trying to figure out what file is coming from there, but if I select ā€˜block’ in my anti-virus, I still don’t see any failed files in Chrome’s dev tools, so I’m not sure. But I can trigger it every time I refresh the page, so… it’s in there somewhere.

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I’ve narrowed down some of the links.

In my email messages, it’s due to emojis in archived (i.e. old) mail. So that makes perfect sense. No problem there.

If I go to community.wanikani.com and refresh the page, I don’t get any warnings. But if I open the developer console (Chrome), I immediately get the warning, and will also get it every time I refresh the page with developer console still open.

It’s worth noting that I have ā€œDisable Cacheā€ checked in the developer console, so it’s reloading everything every time, whereas with the console closed, it will use cache. That may explain the difference.

I’ve checked under Firefox, and get similar behavior.

IE doesn’t have any problems.

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I’ve looked at this and can’t find any references to the old CDN (cdn-business2) on the live site. Also, I don’t get any warnings with the developer console open.

Are there any specific pages with which you’re having trouble? With that information I’ll be able to address the problem.

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The home page of community.wanikani.com was doing it, as well as most others I tried.
I couldn’t find any references to cdn-business2 either, though the security popup must be finding it somewhere.

Unfortunately, yesterday I told my antivirus to accept the SSL certificate, and I can’t find where to revoke it now, so I’m not sure I can replicate the issue anymore :frowning:

But we have a large population of fellow software people on the site for some reason, so I can ask if anyone else is seeing this, and point them to this thread.

Thanks for looking into it!

One of the members at wanikani was able to find a reference to cdn-business2.discourse.org.
His initial comment about .org vs .com is due to my mistyping when I posted an inquiry on wanikani.com.

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I think my suspicions are right. I tested with a basic html file like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
	<script>
		//# sourceMappingURL=https://cdn-business2.discourse.org/assets/plugin-8bb7a7a3d6d016496acaa8df06bd691326dfec1aaf169e60160556d9794ddfbc.js.map
	</script>
</head>
<body>
	<h1>Cabecera</h1>
	<p>PƔrrafo.</p>
</body>
</html>

If I open this with Firefox (with the dev console open) it makes the request to cdn-business2.discourse.org and the AV complains.

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Oh yes, excellent sleuthing work all!

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