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Re: Testing and certificates

From: Tobie Langel <tobie@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:15:54 +0200
To: James Graham <james@hoppipolla.co.uk>
Cc: public-test-infra@w3.org
Message-ID: <A466FECA9269436AA72153CEB4064A21@w3.org>
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?

--tobie

  
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