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

[Zhicheng Liu]

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> On 16 Feb 2017, at 15:09, burkov <burkov at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 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
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