Clicked on link, received warning

[Johnny_L.A]

I posted this in another thread:

@Johnny_L.A

I clicked on the SDMB link in the OP of this thread, and received a warning:

This Connection Is Not Private

The website may be impersonating “boards.straightdope.com” to steal your personal or financial information. You should close this page.

Clicking on ‘Show details’, it says the certificate is issued to *.cloudfront[dot]net, that it expires 17 December, 2017, and This certificate is not valid (host name mismatch). Organisation (under Details) is amazon[dot]com.

Could this be an effect of turning Flash Player on? Or is it something else?

I just did a google search, on this domain and “this link”. When I click on SDMB links in those threads, either hotlinked or in the clear, the page comes up. When I click on the link in the OP of the thread referenced in the quote, I get the warning.

Anyone know why?

[Andy_L]

The link has https:// instead of http:// - if you take off the “s” the link works properly.

[John_DiFool]

I thought you mean a moderator warning…how the hey do you get that from clicking on a link?

[engineer_comp_geek]

We don’t use https here.

I fixed the link in that thread so that it goes to http instead of https.

[Chronos]

I thought you mean a moderator warning…how the hey do you get that from clicking on a link?

Ve haff our vays…

[Chronos]

I thought you mean a moderator warning…how the hey do you get that from clicking on a link?

Ve haff our vays…

[Senegoid]

And if you click on any link to that infamous paper towel tube thread – you know, the one that started it all – you get auto-insta-banned. Since them as do that are no longer around to warn everyone else, very few people know about this.