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If you were like me and holding out on Let's Encrypt until Windows XP is supported (even Chrome is still broken on XP) it looks like a date of March 22nd has be

If you were like me and holding out on Let's Encrypt until Windows XP is supported (even Chrome is still broken on XP) it looks like a date of March 22nd has been set for "getting new cross-signatures from IdenTrust which work on Windows XP." https://letsencrypt.org/upcoming-features/ https://letsencrypt.org/upcoming-features/ https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/issues/1660 https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/issues/1660

groovy2shoes 11y ago
Why on earth are you still running Windows XP?
- schoen 11y ago
  More likely a matter of having a site that has a lot of users who are still running it.
  - vsl 11y ago
    Or an application… Exactly that.
- waskosky 11y ago
  I haven't met many of these people to ask them, but I know they still exist because of their user agent containing "Windows NT 5.1" and I know for sure they aren't all bots, and many of them even live in Southern California. I suspect these are the people who would be most confused by websites failing to load. The cost of providing support then is much greater than the cost of a Comodo certificate.
  - groovy2shoes 11y ago
    I see. It's a shame you can't intercept the error and display your own along the lines of "upgrade your damn OS already!"
    - bad_user 11y ago
      It's not the OS, just Internet Explorer. And an upgrade to the OS isn't free.
      - vsl 11y ago
        Are you sure about that? I assumed it would be affecting SSL verification in WinInet/WinHTTP (and so affect any applications using that stack)...
    - bitJericho 11y ago
      Please don't do that. Workers at large companies often have no choice
      - groovy2shoes 11y ago
        I can sort of understand a handful of rather lazy and/or incompetent users insisting on continuing to use a 15-year-old OS, which was replaced a decade ago, and has not been supported by the vendor for 2 years. Large companies have no excuse.
        bitJericho 11y ago
        Yes, so banning all their employees from buying what your selling seems like a grand idea!

groovy2shoes 11y ago

Why on earth are you still running Windows XP?

schoen 11y ago
More likely a matter of having a site that has a lot of users who are still running it.
- vsl 11y ago
  Or an application… Exactly that.
waskosky 11y ago
I haven't met many of these people to ask them, but I know they still exist because of their user agent containing "Windows NT 5.1" and I know for sure they aren't all bots, and many of them even live in Southern California. I suspect these are the people who would be most confused by websites failing to load. The cost of providing support then is much greater than the cost of a Comodo certificate.
- groovy2shoes 11y ago
  I see. It's a shame you can't intercept the error and display your own along the lines of "upgrade your damn OS already!"
  - bad_user 11y ago
    It's not the OS, just Internet Explorer. And an upgrade to the OS isn't free.
    - vsl 11y ago
      Are you sure about that? I assumed it would be affecting SSL verification in WinInet/WinHTTP (and so affect any applications using that stack)...
  - bitJericho 11y ago
    Please don't do that. Workers at large companies often have no choice
    - groovy2shoes 11y ago
      I can sort of understand a handful of rather lazy and/or incompetent users insisting on continuing to use a 15-year-old OS, which was replaced a decade ago, and has not been supported by the vendor for 2 years. Large companies have no excuse.
      - bitJericho 11y ago
        Yes, so banning all their employees from buying what your selling seems like a grand idea!