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Problems with some scripts sites over the weekend

April 19, 2009 at 8:04 pm by in

Over the weekend we had some issues with content for scripts.mit.edu virtual hosts/CNAMEs (*.mit.edu sites, only not *.scripts.mit.edu sites) that had not requested a SSL server certificate assigned to them. The issue mostly affected these sites when accessed over SSL on port 444.

First, for a couple of minutes on Friday night, I made a change to one of our web servers that accidentally caused requests to all such sites to receive the content for axo.mit.edu (the alphabetically first vhost with its own certificate). That change did not reach the other server, and the misdirection was fixed as soon as I realized my mistake.

However, this only fixed http and https, and did not take effect for port :444. This was corrected earlier today after one of our users reported it while testing a site that he had requested an SSL certificate for.

I sincerely apologize for any trouble this may have caused. Hopefully this did not affect many sites, because those intending to use SSL should have a certificate, and sites with certificates installed were not affected.

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