RE: 500 Can't connect to https://turkishclassified.com :443

Something was making a query of residencepermitturkey.com display errors for turkishclassified.com, which, I agree, is bizarre. I looked for a redirect in the code but didn't find one that would explain that problem. In the source code, the author has linked to https links at the offending site:
<img class="flag-icon no-caret" src="https://turkishclassified.com/images/flags/32/tr.png">

I couldn't reproduce the results either but saw lots of other errors. I suppose my recommendation should include not to hot link to other domain's images, instead, copy them to the residencepermitturkey.com hosting account, and then remove all references to turkishclassified.com from the code, since it's got a bad security certificate (my browser is blocking the page due to security risks, presumably a bad certificate – I didn't dig any deeper, as the solution of removing all references to the offending site should resolve the matter).


Regards,

Jules D. O’Guin



From: Jukka K. Korpela <jukkakk@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 500 Can't connect to https://turkishclassified.com :443

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 O'Guin, Jules D. (jdo09280@ccv.vsc.edu<mailto:jdo09280@ccv.vsc.edu>) wrote:

Probably a misconfigured security certificate on the turkishclassified.com<http://turkishclassified.com> website.

Such a misconfiguration would not cause this problem.

<a href="//turkishclassified.com" target="_blank">Turkey Property For Sale</a></li>

Markup validators do not follow normal <a href=...> links; they just parse the elements (unless they can do "recursive" validation, and I don't think the W3C validator can). Besides, when the page's URL is an http: URL, this link would use the same protocol instead of using the HTTPS port 443.

When I  use the validator to check the page https://residencepermitturkey.com I get one warning and two error messages very different from the one in the original post:

Error: End of file seen without seeing a doctype first. Expected <!DOCTYPE html>.
Error: Element head is missing a required instance of child element title.
Warning: Consider adding a lang attribute to the html start tag to declare the language of this document.
Something odd is going on here, since when I check "Show source", the "Source" section in te validator's response is empty, and the actual content of the page seems to be rather different: when view HTML source and cut and paste it, using "Validate by Direct Input", I get "122 Errors, 29 warning(s)".

Jukka

Received on Friday, 25 October 2019 17:57:02 UTC