coord.ch redirects no longer work

[Slini11]

Nice, that a good news at the end of the year!

[mic@]

http://coord.eu/ is an alternate redirect service currently operated by Opencaching Romania for some time now, experimentally. Feel free to use it.

Sorry to say, but Chrome doesn´t like Your service anymore.
It (Chrome) says:

Dies ist keine sichere Verbindung
Hacker könnten versuchen, Ihre Daten von coord.eu zu stehlen, zum Beispiel Passwörter, Nachrichten oder Kreditkartendaten. Weitere Informationen
NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID

coord.eu schützt Ihre Daten in der Regel durch Verschlüsselung. Als Google Chrome dieses Mal versuchte, eine Verbindung zu coord.eu herzustellen, gab die Website ungewöhnliche und falsche Anmeldedaten zurück. Entweder versucht ein Angreifer, sich als coord.eu auszugeben, oder die Verbindung wurde durch eine WLAN-Anmeldeseite unterbrochen. Da Google Chrome die Verbindung vor dem Austausch von Daten unterbrochen hat, sind Ihre Informationen weiterhin sicher.

Sie können coord.eu derzeit nicht aufrufen, da die Website HSTS verwendet. Netzwerkfehler und Angriffe sind in der Regel nur vorübergehend, sodass die Seite wahrscheinlich später wieder funktioniert.

[Teammb]

Seems just to be a certificate problem. It works with me in all browsers. Don’t worry, he doesn’t request credit card data. Did you try to access the page via plain http (instead of https)?

[andrixnet_ro]

The service is designed to work with this URL: http://coord.eu
Notice the plain http, not https.

If you try to access https://coord.eu (which is wrong), then the error you got is normal.

Note:
Since this web service does not use forms for users to submit data the use of https would be needless complication.

[Teammb]

Ever tried let's encrypt?
Encryption isn't necessary, but generally nice.

[mic@]

[quote="andrixnet_ro"]The service is designed to work with this URL: http://coord.eu
Notice the plain http, not https.

If you try to access https://coord.eu (which is wrong), then the error you got is normal.[/quote]

I try to enter http://coord.eu/OC15010  (without s),
but Chrome switches automatically to https://coord.eu/OC15010 .

And this is only a Chrome problem, FF is working good!

[Teammb]

Maybe you can switch off the automatic change in the settings or readjust the settings for this site stored by your browser? I know, Chrome trends to do this change, but it's not a general Chome issue. It's more a problem of your browser's remembrance. In Firefox the setting is called "gesamte Webseite vergessen" (in the German version).

[mic@]

[quote="Teammb"]It's more a problem of your browser's remembrance.[/quote]

Good tip... I cleared the browser cache, and now I am able to use the redirection service again!
Big THANK YOU!

[andrixnet_ro]

[quote="Teammb"]
Ever tried let's encrypt?
Encryption isn't necessary, but generally nice.
[/quote]

At least OCNL, OCRO, OCUS, (I think also OCPL and OCUK) run via HTTPS using Letsencrypt initiative.

In the case of COORD.EU encryption really isn't necessary.
On the technical side, having it hosted in a distributed way (at least 3) for better availability, yet using a single URL (server name) makes it much harder to configure with certificates.

[andrixnet_ro]

[quote="mic@"]
[quote="Teammb"]It's more a problem of your browser's remembrance.[/quote]

Good tip... I cleared the browser cache, and now I am able to use the redirection service again!
Big THANK YOU!
[/quote]

Indeed. I've tested with my Chrome on PC and on mobile immediately after seeing your message and worked fine.
I've encountered similar problems with other sites as well, with Chrome sticking to changing into a wrong URL. (typed the wrong one once, then subsequent correctly typed URL was changed).