[mythtv-users] Wots happening

[Mike Perkins]

On 22/03/2021 13:08, James wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 22 Mar 2021, at 5:55 pm, Stuart Auchterlonie <stuarta at squashedfrog.net> wrote:
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>> On 20/03/2021 01:50, James Linder wrote:
>>> I mostly use mythweb, but was fooling around
>>> Secure Connection Failed
>>> An error occurred during a connection to sandypit.home:6544. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.
>>
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>> Port 6544 is the default backend port, and is not an SSL port.
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>> Are you trying to make an https connection to the backend on that port?
>>
>> If so, I would not expect this to work
> 
> Stuart no, normal bookmark access to http://
> What I found most interesting was that as soon as internet service resumed all returned to normal.
> My local network has DNS and DHCP server. I just queried lest we tried to access http://somewhere.strange <http://somewhere.strange/>
> Since all is working nah wurries, but oneday we might depreciate mythweb in favour of the backend server and a heads up in advance might be useful
> 
And with modern versions of Firefox (a) "assuming" that you really meant https instead of http, and 
therefore that all sites using port 80[1] are by definition cesspits of malware (even when they are 
under the same domain as the user!); and (b) automatically encoding your DNS enquiries and sending 
them off to Google/Cloudflare/Microsoft/whatever[2] instead of following standards, life in future 
is about to get more interesting.

[1] Replace with any port other than 443, at your choice.
[2] Unless you can find the obscure about:config entry to turn that off.

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Mike Perkins