Another website hijack

[xoggoth]

Cheers for those. I don't think it has an SSL certificate as nothing requiring security is needed. It's a Wordpress thing. There is a shop but I think that's by link to Paypal.

I understand a certicate will be necessary to avoid a warning if somebody enters https but then redirecting or linking from a secure page to an insecure one apparently gives a warning anyway. Does she need to secure the entire site just to cater for typos or quirky browser/Google autofills? (IE seems to have stopped doing it now!)

What on earth do pople with normal sites do about this? It ought to be a common problem but one would not think so looking on the net.


Hmmm: Maybe I'm not the only one who's never noticed this problem before but at least CUK doesn't redirect to a site for cookware appliances.

https://forums.contractoruk.com/

[cojak]

I'm not a techy but is it something to do with this?

Google Redirects Your Search To Https? Change It! -

[Cliphead]

Not mine this time but somebode I know.

http:etc appears to be ok but https:etc brings up "The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website's address" and continue to website goes to a third party sales thing.

Unfortunately, if one just types website.co.uk into IE expecting it to auto fill the http:/www stuff as usual I get https: and not http:

Not much idea about this http and https stuff or why would they give different addresses. Any ideas appreciated.

PS The site it goes to appears to be a legitimate UK site so probably not a hack. Wondering if there is just something missing setting wise. On xoggoth site, as no https target explicitly set, it just goes to the host support page.

My question appears to be:- how to direct https: to normal http: page?

Does the site actually have a valid SSL Certificate? If it doesn't going to https will throw a warning.

[xoggoth]

Not mine this time but somebode I know.

http:etc appears to be ok but https:etc brings up "The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website's address" and continue to website goes to a third party sales thing.

Unfortunately, if one just types website.co.uk into IE expecting it to auto fill the http:/www stuff as usual I get https: and not http:

Not much idea about this http and https stuff or why would they give different addresses. Any ideas appreciated.

PS The site it goes to appears to be a legitimate UK site so probably not a hack. Wondering if there is just something missing setting wise. On xoggoth site, as no https target explicitly set, it just goes to the host support page.

My question appears to be:- how to direct https: to normal http: page?