Re: Testing and certificates

On 11/10/2013 17:15 , Tobie Langel wrote:
> On Friday, October 11, 2013 at 5:05 PM, James Graham wrote:
>> I don't really know how you would get a certificate for such a hostname
>> though. A self-signed cert. isn't good enough since browsers will
>> complain about it. I assume no CA will actually sign such a cert.
>> (additionally, the name is theoretically resolvable; someone could pay
>> for the .test tld. Hopefully that's not a big risk, but it's hard to know).
>
> Why don't we just purchase a domain name and use it only for that?

Yeah, in case I wasn't clear that's one of the options I was thinking 
of. I only mentioned using a non-existing TLD to provide perhaps 
stronger guarantee that it won't resolve, but we can easily just own the 
domain and pledge never to use it.

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Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon

Received on Monday, 14 October 2013 10:40:52 UTC