gnucash-user archives unsearchable on Google Chrome

[Jimmy Crossley]

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-----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user-bounces+jcrossley=conetrix.com at gnucash.org [mailto:gnucash-user-
> bounces+jcrossley=conetrix.com at gnucash.org] On Behalf Of prl
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 18:29
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: gnucash-user archives unsearchable on Google Chrome
>
> Are the archives really unsearchable, or is the search page just a mess?
> It's a mess on both OS X Firefox and Safari, but it still works.
>
> Just enter your text in the box next to the "<?=T_(" button and press
> enter or click on the button.
>
> Searching in that way for "gnucash-user archives unsearchable" (without
> the quotes) found the posts in this discussion straight off in both
> Firefox and Safari.
>
> Both browsers whinge about the self-signed certificate used by
> https://lists.gnucash.org/search/; just tell them to go ahead. Examine
> the certificate if you like, but self-signed certificates don't really
> give you the protection against man-in-the-middle attacks that properly
> CA-signed certificates would, so it matters little what the certificate
> says that it certifies.
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 30/11/11 23:04, Mike Evans wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:44:15 +1100
> > Hedley Finger<hedley.finger at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> Colin and bystanders:
> >>
> >> On 30 November 2011 22:25, Colin Law<clanlaw at googlemail.com>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> To make sure we are all looking at the same site could you post the
> >>> URL of the page you are searching from?
> >>
> >> On the page<https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user>,
> >> click the link to search the archives and you
> >> go to<https://lists.gnucash.org/search/?idxinfo=gnucash-user>.  It
> >> is this page that is unusable in both Internet Explorer 9 and Chrome
> >> 15.0.874.121.
> >>
> >> Regards ,
> >> Hedley
> >>
> > Also Linux Firefox.  Looks like some corruption or misconfiguration.
> >
> > somewhere.
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Sort of off topic - Self-signed certificates might be better than you think:  Let's assume there is no man in the middle attacking you right now.  Most browsers have the option of permanently saving the certificate.  You can also use the Firefox add-on CertPatrol to save certificates.  In both of these cases you will get a warning if the certificate changes, which would guard against future man in the middle attacks.  Convergence (http://convergence.io) and Perspectives (http://perspectives-project.org), which is what Convergence is based on, offer solutions for validating sites without really depending on the certificate authorities.