Safari could not establish a secure connection to Wikipedia?

I am trying to connect to Wikipedia.org using Safari version 10.0 (12602.1.50.0.10), on 10.12 (sierra) but get an error stating that "Safari Can't Open then Page", because "safari can't open a secure connection to the server". There is no padlock or anything else to try to get more information on the issue.


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Trying in Google Chrome, "54.0.2840.59 beta (64-bit)", I am told that "Your connection is not private" and "NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED". Clicking on the red warning symbol I get an indication that the "certificate issuer is invalid", with the certificate issuer being "GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2".


A friend on the the same local network running a Mac, with 10.11 (El Capitan), reports no such issues. I also see no reports on the internet, suggesting the problem is probably local to my computer.


Can anyone suggest a way to solve this issue?


Edit: seems like someone else is seeing issues with that certificate authority too, as reported on 'Stack Exchange'.

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013), OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), null

Posted on Oct 13, 2016 7:48 AM

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Posted on Oct 13, 2016 4:28 PM

wikipedia works but i'm suddenly having this problem with vimeo and soundcloud not loading. both worked fine using current safari and chrome yesterday. also embedded vimeo videos no longer play on my website. firefox seems to be OK.


update: pasting the terminal code from above fixed this issue for soundcloud and vimeo with safari and chrome.

sqlite3 ~/Library/Keychains/*/ocspcache.sqlite3 'DELETE FROM ocsp WHERE hex(serialNum) IN ("040000000001444EF03E20", "040000000001444EF04247");'

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Oct 13, 2016 4:28 PM in response to Andre John Mas

wikipedia works but i'm suddenly having this problem with vimeo and soundcloud not loading. both worked fine using current safari and chrome yesterday. also embedded vimeo videos no longer play on my website. firefox seems to be OK.


update: pasting the terminal code from above fixed this issue for soundcloud and vimeo with safari and chrome.

sqlite3 ~/Library/Keychains/*/ocspcache.sqlite3 'DELETE FROM ocsp WHERE hex(serialNum) IN ("040000000001444EF03E20", "040000000001444EF04247");'

Oct 13, 2016 8:13 AM in response to dialabrain

I am indeed. I wouldn't get this issue with a plain 'http' connection and wikipedia redirects to their https port anyhow.


Further I am seeing this may be a Verisign issue, with has indicated on Twitter:

We are currently experiencing issues with our OCSP which is causing certificate warning messages. We aim to fix this as soon as possible.

This won't effect everyone, since it will depend the CDN node.


BTW time on my computer is correct.


Steps according to Verisign on the the Mac side "If you’d like to delete both OCSP and CRL cache, in a terminal, enter the following command", though it may depend on the CDN updates as well:


sudo rm /var/db/crls/*cache.db

Oct 13, 2016 8:47 AM in response to Andre John Mas

I'm having the same problem, so far I cannot access https://wikipedia.org or https://drupal.org

Also, ZenMate is not able to connect to any servers because of the same issue.


I've tried changing the GlobalSign certs from default to not trusted to always trust in Keychain access but no luck.


I've also ran

sudo rm /var/db/crls/*cache.db

with no luck at all.


Using Mac OS Sierra latest Public Beta

Oct 13, 2016 9:47 AM in response to Andre John Mas

I have the same issue on udemy.com out of the blue, on Sierra with both Safari and Chrome and on iMac and macBookPro. It must be linked to an ssl certificate issue on the server side but in keychain nothing shows as expired. I think GlobalSign certificates have a pb with MacOs credentials. I only get this on udemy whilst wikipedia works however...

Nov 10, 2016 9:29 AM in response to ciciroes

Hi I had the same issue with soundcloud.

What helped for me is following.

Go to the website that does not work. Use rightclick->inspect element. Now go to network. There should see all sources the browser tries to load, some of them are red if the website isnt working. Click on them and say 'copy cURL'. Copy that address to ur searchbar and delete everything in front of http and after .css/.html etc. and load it.

There should appear a message that u are trying to use an unsecure certificate. Choose always trust and continue. Do this for all urls appearing red when u try to load the website and u are good to go.


It seems like there is some kind of certificate issues with the latest macOS/safari versions

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