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official government Office for National Statistics site unreachable

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Postby Breelander » January 20th, 2021, 6:45 pm

Follow the official link to the ONS website given on this page....

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisat ... statistics

...and you currently get this, saying the security certificate has been revoked!!!

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to www.ons.gov.uk. Peer's Certificate has been revoked.

Error code: SEC_ERROR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE

  • The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
  • Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem.
Last edited by Breelander on January 20th, 2021, 6:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Re: official government Office for National Statistics site unreachable

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Postby dealtn » January 20th, 2021, 6:48 pm

Breelander wrote:Follow the official link to the ONS website given on this page....

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisat ... statistics

...and you currently get this, saying the security certificate has been revoked!!!

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to http://www.ons.gov.uk. Peer's Certificate has been revoked.

Error code: SEC_ERROR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE

  • The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
  • Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem.


Not for me

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Re: official government Office for National Statistics site unreachable

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Postby PhaseThree » January 20th, 2021, 6:49 pm

Works for me

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Re: official government Office for National Statistics site unreachable

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Postby supremetwo » January 20th, 2021, 6:49 pm

I get there OK and certificate is valid.

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Re: official government Office for National Statistics site unreachable

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Postby Breelander » January 20th, 2021, 6:55 pm

dealtn wrote:Not for me


And not for me ...now. Someone has obviously just got their wrists slapped and re-issued the security certificate.

Who'd have thought a government department could be capable of such a mistake?

Oh....

.... wait

Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases...

...The Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55684320

:lol: :roll:

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Re: official government Office for National Statistics site unreachable

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Postby supremetwo » January 20th, 2021, 7:07 pm

The certificate showing here says issued 23 ‎October ‎2020 expiry ‎24 ‎November ‎2021.

The issue date would be today if it had expired or can you simply transfer a valid certificate from site to site?

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Re: official government Office for National Statistics site unreachable

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Postby UncleEbenezer » January 20th, 2021, 9:11 pm

It could be a mutiplexed site: several servers servicing the same domain. Like multiple cashiers in a shop or bank (remember when banks had branches you could walk in to?). If one of those servers had a dud certificate, that would explain the OP getting an error while others had no problem.

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Re: official government Office for National Statistics site unreachable

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Postby staffordian » January 21st, 2021, 9:49 pm

I too got this yesterday.

Wasn't sure if it was me so I tried a couple of devices, different browsers and both mobile and fixed internet, but to no avail, though when I tried again later it was fine.

What puzzled me, and made me question if it was a problem at my end was that one of those "Isitjustdownforme" sites said it was up when I was getting that message.

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Re: official government Office for National Statistics site unreachable

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Postby Infrasonic » January 22nd, 2021, 12:09 pm

Do they have the stats for security certificate issues on websites?...

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Re: official government Office for National Statistics site unreachable

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Postby supremetwo » January 22nd, 2021, 11:34 pm

Infrasonic wrote:Do they have the stats for security certificate issues on websites?...

For a particular site, it is right click the padlock on the left of the https:// address in your browser - select certificate = 3 tabs general, details and certification path.

Or do you mean overall error stats for all sites?


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