Joe's Window Manager site problem - SOLVED

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ASD · #1 Post by **ASD** » Wed 04 May 2016, 09:17

EDIT 6th May 2016
Here, with thanks to Joe for his fix. is a link to what is currently the last post in this thread:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 577#902577
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JWM (Joe's Window Manager) is widely used in Puppy Linux.

http://joewing.net/ , Joe's official site, was easily accessed (by me) about a week ago.

Now, and for some days past, using the Pale Moon browser I get the message in the screen shot.

I have also tried using different browsers from different Pups; all failed - so I would appreciate any Forum member's report and especially any advice.

0xdawg · #2 Post by **0xdawg** » Wed 04 May 2016, 11:16

It's an unknown SSL cert that your browser tries preventing you from since the connection is secured -> https://joewing.net/

what you'll need to do is click I understand the risks, then you'll read:
If you understand what's going on, you can tell Pale Moon to start trusting this site's identification. Even if you trust the site, this error could mean that someone is tampering with your connection.
Don't add an exception unless you know there's a good reason why this site doesn't use trusted identification.
click on [Add exception]
a popup is gonna ask you if you want to add an exception again
(latest Google Chrome 50 btw doesn't block that cert)

everything is fine with that site -- this SSL certificate is made by the owner himself, but not insecure at all
(had to edit this last sentence -- well, i'm not a native speaker ;] )

ASD · #3 Post by **ASD** » Wed 04 May 2016, 11:40

Oxdawg,

Thank you. I followed your advice and I see the JWM logo has changed shape (now much reduced in height) since a week ago; so perhaps Joe has revamped his site, but not the certificate?

linuxcbon · #4 Post by **linuxcbon** » Wed 04 May 2016, 11:41

The site works ok, you only need to accept the certificate, that's all.

ally · #5 Post by **ally** » Wed 04 May 2016, 11:41

just been to site and all is well, must have caught at a bad time?

ASD · #6 Post by **ASD** » Wed 04 May 2016, 11:54

ally et al,

For me, the site is still down, so I have sent Joe a message with a link to this thread in the hope that he may wish to comment.

Thanks to all responders

technosaurus · #7 Post by **technosaurus** » Wed 04 May 2016, 12:43

You guys may want to bookmark https://github.com/joewing/jwm/
Joe is doing regular development on it and is pretty responsive to bug reports and even feature requests if you file an issue.

joewing · #8 Post by **joewing** » Thu 05 May 2016, 00:41

The site should be up. It was down during a power outage for about an hour yesterday.

As far as the certificate is concerned, it is from a certificate authority, perhaps the browser is out-of-date?

ebisu · #9 Post by **ebisu** » Thu 05 May 2016, 01:46

James C · #10 Post by **James C** » Thu 05 May 2016, 01:50

Just visited the site, no problems with up-to-date Chrome.No warning,just straight to the site.

perdido · #11 Post by **perdido** » Thu 05 May 2016, 03:51

I loaded https://joewing.net/ at https://browsershots.org/

Out of 178 browsers attempted, only 14 could load the page.

Fail for 164/178 (92% failed)

Looks to be working for
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Chrome 29.0 / Windows 7
Chrome 30.0 / Windows 7
Chrome 31.0 / Windows 7
Chrome 35.0.1916.69 / Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
Chrome 43.0.2357.124 / Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
Chrome 44.0.2403.157 / Windows 7
Chrome 45.0.2454.85 / Debian 6.0 (squeeze)
Chrome 48.0.2564.97 / Debian 6.0 (squeeze)
Chrome 48.0.2564.116 / Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
Chrome 50.0.2661.86 / Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
Epiphany 3.4.2 / Debian 6.0 (squeeze)
Luakit 1.10.2 / Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
Midori 0.4 / Debian 6.0 (squeeze)
Opera 12.16 / Debian 6.0 (squeeze)
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Also tried Tor browser, it complained the connection is untrusted but let me bypass the warning.
"joewing.net uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown. (Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)"

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6502coder · #12 Post by **6502coder** » Thu 05 May 2016, 04:56

Works fine for me, using both Opera 37.0 and Firefox 46.0.1 on Win7 Pro

ASD · #13 Post by **ASD** » Thu 05 May 2016, 07:39

joewing

Thank for replying. Using the latest versions of SeaMonkey (v 2.40) and Pale Moon (v 26.2.1 (x64)) I have, almost certainly, tried both (with no success) every day for about the last week or so.

It seems peculiar that the "ancient" Opera v 12 (but perhaps not v 12.16) fails for ebisu, but one of perdido's amazing tests which worked used Opera 12.16 / Debian 6.0 (squeeze).

ebisu · #14 Post by **ebisu** » Thu 05 May 2016, 08:48

joewing · #15 Post by **joewing** » Thu 05 May 2016, 23:39

I removed the redirect and re-enabled the HTTP version. So it should work with plain HTTP now or with HTTPS, though some browsers may have the redirect cached.

I guess I should have spent more on the certificate. I got it mostly for email, so I can't complain too much.

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