web site certificate

not a quail keeping question, more a question about a message I keep getting whenever I connect to this forum. Anyone else get this message?



I checked the gqfmfg.com web site and it's an American web site.

not for a long time now i havnt, but when i did get it the message didnt have that website, maybe others also got this pop up message.

Keelan

Ta Kenza. I thought I was going crazy. Finally found the reason for it.

Mark from Missouri imbedded some images from the GQFMFG.com web site. The pictures are in the topic "Incubation/chicks : pheasant eggs in with quail".

Nothing spectacular about imbedding the images, however rather curiously the whole web site for GQF is using secure sockets (HTTPS protocol), which is generally only used for secure info (e.g. taking credit card details or personal info) and not whole sale.

Panic over!

never had that sorry

will depend on what browser you are using and your security settings. I was using FireFox when I got that message. Internet Explorer only reports the problem when I visit the GQF web site (and not on this site). Safari doesn't seem to be bothered either way.

Looks like they haven't setup their site correctly, let alone their security certificate.

I've had it a couple of time on Explorer, no idea what its all about so just cancel and carry on

same idea as me Suz haha

I get those every time I go shopping on websites, even when I tell it to keep them permanently. I use Firefox for browsing.

Mark

let me guess Mark, you shop quite a bit with GQFMFG.com?

If the web site certificate is setup correctly, you shouldn't get these messages. They are intended to stop fraudulent sites masquerading as being legitimate. As a rule I never give my credit card or other sensitive information without this (on most browsers you get that little padlock icon, the web address will be prefixed by https://... also the web address will have a background in yellow).

The reason secure sockets (or HTTPS) are only used for sensitive data is because the data is encrypted. Encryption has an overhead and slows the pages down. So it is a bit excessive to use it for the whole web site. It should be used to take payment details for shopping web sites.

I was surprised to get these messages on this forum last night, I thought someone had got pass my firewall.

I have never shopped that site, just browsing it for price comparisons. I am pretty knowledgeable about secure shopping and I get angry when the sites I go to have the Certs pop up when I always tell them to keep them permanently.