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> Sorry! It seems there was an error preparing your experiment. Please try reloading the page in a few minutes. If the error persists please contact us here. > Error creating a user. Is the database offline? Original Message: Error: Network Error Hug of death?

est31 6y ago
No, just the certificate expired. The site is hosted on AWS and there are valid AWS related certificates registered in public logs [0], but they aren't deployed on the website, instead a certificate with 2 year long validity that expired just a few minutes ago [1]. Even if you click on the "I know the risk, I accept" button, it tries to connect to api.musiclab.org through CORS. This fails due to the same certificate issue and gives the error you report. Bad luck I guess that it expires right when it gets viral on hn. [0]: https://crt.sh/?id=2886689176 https://crt.sh/?id=2886689176 [1]: https://crt.sh/?id=882377045 https://crt.sh/?id=882377045
- jiveturkey 6y ago
  > Bad luck I guess that it expires right when it gets viral on hn. This right here is the problem with privacy and security. low expectations. It isn't bad luck, it's below baseline level secops/SRE. I mean, sure, it's probably a low effort, low investment toy site, but this is very baseline stuff. If you aren't going to manage a cert properly, just don't use TLS at all!
  - chrisfosterelli 6y ago
    It's an engineering mistake that it expired, but bad luck that it expired today. (That said, everyone makes mistakes now and again)
- lucb1e 6y ago
  > it tries to connect to api.musiclab.org through CORS. This fails due to the same certificate issue Thanks for the hint! It works now that I visited the api subdomain separately, accepted the warning, and go back to the test. The test sound now plays (though you might need to give it a second).
  - leobakerhytch 6y ago
    I couldn’t get this to work, but setting back my clock to October 20th did the trick (along with deleting the modal’s element via dev tools as jonahx mentions).
- jonahx 6y ago
  Also, after doing that, I had to open dev tools and delete the main node for the modal that was covering the page. After that I could take the test.
woliveirajr 6y ago
Certificate of Death.

est31 6y ago

No, just the certificate expired. The site is hosted on AWS and there are valid AWS related certificates registered in public logs [0], but they aren't deployed on the website, instead a certificate with 2 year long validity that expired just a few minutes ago [1]. Even if you click on the "I know the risk, I accept" button, it tries to connect to api.musiclab.org through CORS. This fails due to the same certificate issue and gives the error you report. Bad luck I guess that it expires right when it gets viral on hn. [0]: https://crt.sh/?id=2886689176 https://crt.sh/?id=2886689176 [1]: https://crt.sh/?id=882377045 https://crt.sh/?id=882377045

jiveturkey 6y ago
> Bad luck I guess that it expires right when it gets viral on hn. This right here is the problem with privacy and security. low expectations. It isn't bad luck, it's below baseline level secops/SRE. I mean, sure, it's probably a low effort, low investment toy site, but this is very baseline stuff. If you aren't going to manage a cert properly, just don't use TLS at all!
- chrisfosterelli 6y ago
  It's an engineering mistake that it expired, but bad luck that it expired today. (That said, everyone makes mistakes now and again)
lucb1e 6y ago
> it tries to connect to api.musiclab.org through CORS. This fails due to the same certificate issue Thanks for the hint! It works now that I visited the api subdomain separately, accepted the warning, and go back to the test. The test sound now plays (though you might need to give it a second).
- leobakerhytch 6y ago
  I couldn’t get this to work, but setting back my clock to October 20th did the trick (along with deleting the modal’s element via dev tools as jonahx mentions).
jonahx 6y ago
Also, after doing that, I had to open dev tools and delete the main node for the modal that was covering the page. After that I could take the test.

woliveirajr 6y ago

Certificate of Death.