Safari could not establish a secure connection to Wikipedia?

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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.

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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Answer 1

Oct 13, 2016 9:53 AM in response to dialabrain

dialabrain wrote:

FWIW it is not a beta issue.

How do you know that? I was responding to pablitt who also has issues with other sites, and he says he is using a beta version of Sierra.

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Andre John Mas Author

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Oct 13, 2016 9:57 AM in response to BobTheFisherman

I am not using a beta OS. Using the latest version of Sierra as made available in the app store: 10.12 (16A323).

Edit: hadn't seen the response was to another poster, but leaving this just to confirm for my case.

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dialabrain

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Oct 13, 2016 9:59 AM in response to BobTheFisherman

BobTheFisherman wrote:

dialabrain wrote:

FWIW it is not a beta issue.

How do you know that? I was responding to pablitt who also has issues with other sites, and he says he is using a beta version of Sierra.

Since you asked, because I have Macs with both release versions and beta versions.

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pablitt

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Oct 13, 2016 10:00 AM in response to BobTheFisherman

It actually looks like it's a GlobalSign issue, and apparently they've fixed it and now we need to wait :/

https://twitter.com/globalsign/status/786505261842247680

The Firefox workaround works for me, at least I can access the sites again until everything is fixed 🙂

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Answer 5

Oct 13, 2016 10:43 AM in response to Andre John Mas

Have the same problem:

https://twitter.com/TheRegister/status/786622450792402948

This is the answer apparently GlobalSign has messed up...

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Answer 6

scheeko

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Oct 13, 2016 10:46 AM in response to pablitt

Wikipedia is showing up again!

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Answer 7

dialabrain

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Oct 13, 2016 10:55 AM in response to scheeko

yep 😎

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Answer 8

Oct 13, 2016 11:07 AM in response to checktrack

To Revoke the faulty GlobalSign Certs open the application Terminal and paste this:

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

Now all sites will work again.

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pablitt

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Oct 13, 2016 11:18 AM in response to checktrack

This did the trick.

Thanks!

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Answer 10

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");'

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Answer 11

Oct 20, 2016 6:46 PM in response to Andre John Mas

This solution unfortunately does not work with the wikipedia problem I am experiencing. How do I identify which record needs to be removed?

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Answer 12

Oct 22, 2016 10:22 PM in response to Andre John Mas

In most cases, this error occurs because incorrect date and time.

Make sure you have checked and verify your current date & time.

Besides, try these solutions, which may help to fix your problem.

https://usefulpcguide.com/16666/your-connection-is-not-private/

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ciciroes

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Oct 24, 2016 2:53 PM in response to Andre John Mas

I had a similar problem after updating to OS10.12, but today i installed 10.12.1, and the problem went away. If someone has an explanation, I would be interested in learning.

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BEEEMO

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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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dialabrain

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Nov 10, 2016 9:46 AM in response to BEEEMO

SoundCloud works fine for me in Safari.

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