Re: self-signed cert

"mistedwind@riseup.net" <mistedwind@riseup.net>, 2015-05-08 02:15 +0000:
> Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/554C1C32.90507@riseup.net>
> 
> While using the W3C Markup Validation Service, I got an error, but not
> for any html. For connecting.
> 
> The error I got was:
> 
> 	500 Can't connect to y.st:443
> 
> As you all can see, the website is https://y.st/ which uses a
> self-signed certificate. There is nothing at http://y.st/ but a redirect
> to https.
> ...
> It seems that validator.w3.org is lacking support for invalid ssl
> certificates, however it could be some other error with y.st.

Please instead use https://validator.w3.org/nu/

https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https://y.st/

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Michael[tm] Smith https://people.w3.org/mike