[Box Backup] boxbackup.org SSL change

James O'Gorman james at netinertia.co.uk
Sun Feb 8 13:29:57 GMT 2015


Hi all,

The SSL certificate used by the web server on boxbackup.org expired
recently. Rather than renewing with StartSSL, I've moved the domain over
to CloudFlare to put the site behind the CDN and get SSL with it.

The SSL certificate with the CloudFlare Free plan only supports SNI.
Hopefully everyone is using a modern-enough browser that this won't be
an issue, but please let me know if you have any issues.

Anyone checking out the source code with Subversion will have to ensure
it is linked against a recent OpenSSL (good practice anyway, given
recent OpenSSL issues), otherwise you will receive an error like this:

svn: E175002: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'https://www.boxbackup.org/svn/box/trunk'
svn: E175002: OPTIONS of 'https://www.boxbackup.org/svn/box/trunk': SSL handshake failed: SSL error: sslv3 alert handshake failure (https://www.boxbackup.org)

James



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