[codethief]

Wow, you just opened my eyes – I really thought he had deleted his blog! Must be the HTTPS Everywhere extension I'm using – though I really don't understand why it redirects me to redis.io just because antirez's TLS certificate is for redis.io, not antirez.com. I would really prefer a clear error message here.

[cpach]

The web server(s) at antirez.com are weirdly configured. So it’s not so easy for the web browser to display a very clear error message in this case.

If you run this command you can see a little more clearly what’s going on:

  wget --no-check-certificate -S -O - https://antirez.com/news/124

If you use the plain HTTP URL, everything works fine.

If you try https://antirez.com/news/124 the web server at antirez.com:443 will answer this:

  HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
  Server: nginx/1.10.2
  Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2021 18:15:46 GMT
  Content-Type: text/html
  Content-Length: 185
  Connection: keep-alive
  Location: https://redis.io/news/124

So it’s not HTTPS Everywhere that redirects, it’s the web server itself.

However, many clients won’t heed this response, since antirez.com:443 serves a certificate that’s not valid for that hostname.

[cratermoon]

Looks like the cert is for a different domain (redis.io) AND it expired August 7, 2020.