[ensembl-dev] rest.ensemblegnomes.org SSL Certificate isn't valid, browsers block https ajax requests to you

[burkov]

Hi,

I am Boris Burkov, I'm working on RNAcentral. We're using E! and 
Ensemblgenomes APIs to display genome locations in Genoverse browser. We 
asynchronously load genome locations via Ajax requests from 
rest.ensembl.org and rest.ensemblgenomes.org using https:// protocol, if 
possible.

With E! I'm able to successfully access both http://rest.ensembl.org 
and httpS://rest.ensembl.org.

But with https://rest.ensemblgenomes.org, I'm blocked by the browsers, 
which claim that connection is insecure, because its SSL certificate is 
from staffassociation.embl.org (not sure, if it's certificate issuing 
authority or rest.ensemblgenomes.org is trying to use certificate of 
staffassociation.embl.org). So, I can't safely query your APIs via Ajax 
and if I'm hosting my site on https:// domain, I can't fallback to 
queries to http://rest.ensemblgenomes.org, because of mixed content 
error (https:// websites are not allowed to issue Ajax calls to http:// 
websites in modern Google Chrome by default).

Could you get a valid SSL certificate for rest.ensemblgenomes.org, 
please?

Thanks and regards

-- 
Boris Burkov
Web-developer
EMBL-EBI
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton
Cambridge CB10 1SD UK
Tel.: +44 (0) 1223 494360
Email: burkov at ebi.ac.uk