[OSM-dev] SSL-Certificate for osm.org

Paul Hartmann phaaurlt at gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 10:16:16 UTC 2016


On 21.03.2016 10:26, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 03/21/2016 09:22 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:
>> The horribly backward Java certificate root authority list is the main
>> obstacle to most of our attempts to improve https support in fact.
>
> Perhaps we could just ignore that? I'm a JOSM user myself but I don't
> think that the rest of the world should suffer just because Java is
> unhappy with our SSL.

Support for custom certificates has been added to JOSM in version 9995. 
So far, Let's encrypt and StartSSL is included.

(see https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/12264)

> I'm sure that JOSM users who desperately need SSL can find a workaround
> (could one not e.g. have JOSM connect insecurely to localhost and then
> reverse-proxy https://openstreetmap.org/ from there?)

Default Server URL is https://api.openstreetmap.org/api. I.e. it would 
break for every (pre 9995) user.

Best, Paul







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