Bass Centre Site Issue?

[stewblack]

Hi folks, any of the pointy heads here know if this is Firefox being overly cautious or if it's actually something the BC should be made aware of?

[Woodinblack]

Depends why you are going there, if you are just looking it poses no risk at all, just that it doesn't have a correctly configured ssl site, but you don't need it to have

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

The warning comes up when https://www.basscentre.com/ is accessed

But the non-ssl version http://www.basscentre.com loads up with the usual 'site not secure' indicator in the address bar.

Its a little concerning that following the 'secure checkout' link after adding something to your basket takes you to another non-secure page to enter your your details. I'd hope the credit card info is taken on a secure third party site.

Really in 2020 to avoid losing customer trust all sites that do ecommerce should be 100% HTTPS as modern browsers throw out so many warnings when browsing with HTTP. Adding a secure server certificate is not difficult or expensive.

bty - my head isn't pointy

Edited November 4, 2020 by Jean-Luc Pickguard
added that my head isn't pointy

[pete.young]

6 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

bty - my head isn't pointy

Obviously. Otherwise you'd be Jean-Luc Pointy. Wasn't he a fiddle player?

Anyhoo it appears that the Bass Centre is using a self-signed certificate. As J-LP says this doesn't present much of a risk to you as a viewer, as long as you're confident that it's the actual Bass Centre site and not some clone. It's pretty sloppy on the part of the Bass Centre though, there's really no excuse for a commercial site to be set up like this.

Pointy-head Pete.

[stewblack]

I use the term pointy heads with great affection.