So today my dad noticed that my freshly let’s-encrypted domains aren’t working on his Windows XP machine. I took a look on it but I can’t really figure out the problem. Some facts I have gathered: About the server: Domain: www.loilo.de I tested the domain on ssllabs.com and the only potential p…

Honestly, take the opportunity and get your dad off of Windows XP. Install him a XFCE or LXDE based distro dual boot and sell it with “I’m going to make your computer go faster”. Worked perfectly here.

Believe me, I tried. He can do that himself, he’s not that incapable of working with computers at all. But he’s mostly like “never change a running system”. But the growing number of things like that are currently kind of pushing him towards using a newer OS. But still this means that all let’s-enc…

I don’t know if nginx has those kind of features, but with the aid of, for example, this list , you could make some kind of “finger print” for browsers according to the ClientHello the client sends. For example, supported ciphers or something. I have no clue if that’s discriminating enough, but perha…

Nothing off the shelf, no. Give https://blog.cloudflare.com/sha-1-deprecation-no-browser-left-behind/ a read. But I wouldn’t care that much about WinXP really, anybody still under that deserves to get a broken web and yes, I do even include less developed countries here, only Android 2 is a differe…

Yeah, I just had that idea as well. So simple it actually didn’t come to my mind instantly. :no_mouth:

No offense, but that’s a horrible view on accessibility - in my eyes, of course. Anyway, I’m probably just going to limit the redirect to no-XP users.

Here’s a mod_rewrite piece of code someone has posted in the github issue on this :neutral_face:

Thanks, I already saw that. I’m going to try to convert this to nginx config and then tell if it was a success.

[image] Loilo: Thanks, I already saw that. I'm going to try to convert this to nginx config and then tell if it was a success. tried it with nginx at https://community.centminmod.com/threads/letsencrypt-ssl-certificates-and-windows-xp-workarounds.5272/ for testing works as long as the winxp v…

Certificate not working on a certain Windows XP machine

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Loilo December 11, 2015, 8:49pm 2

Okay, I guess this answers my question. So no way to get it to work on XP SP3, what a pity.

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