Secure Website Certificate Expired - How to workaround?

Thomas_Ott
Thomas_Ott New Altair Community Member
edited November 5 in Community Q&A

This is an interesting problem and was wondering if the Community has come across this situation and how the solved it.

 

I'm scraping a website that has a URL beginning with https://. It worked just fine until today when the website's security certificate expired. Now the scraping returns no results. If I changed the URL to http://, then I get 301 Moved Permanently responses.  This might all clear up in a day or two if the website renews their certificate, but for my knowledge (and the Community's), is there a work around this problem?


I can't share the XML but @sgenzer can probably guess what this is related too.

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  • BalazsBarany
    BalazsBarany New Altair Community Member
    Answer ✓

    Hi!

     

    Resetting your computer's clock by a few days might work if it's only the client that checks the certificate validity.

     

    Regards,

    Balázs

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  • sgenzer
    sgenzer
    Altair Employee

    yeah I have a hunch what you're referring to :) Unfortunately I don't have any ideas at the moment...

     

    Scott

     

     

  • BalazsBarany
    BalazsBarany New Altair Community Member
    Answer ✓

    Hi!

     

    Resetting your computer's clock by a few days might work if it's only the client that checks the certificate validity.

     

    Regards,

    Balázs

  • Thomas_Ott
    Thomas_Ott New Altair Community Member

    Thanks @BalazsBarany, I will try that as I expect this to resolve itself in a few days.

     

    @sgenzer I think I know what you are referring to what I referred to! :)

  • Thomas_Ott
    Thomas_Ott New Altair Community Member

    Yep, that worked @BalazsBarany! Fingers crossed that the certificate gets renewed in the next couple of days.

  • Telcontar120
    Telcontar120 New Altair Community Member

    The clock trick is pretty clever.  I have had this problem myself in the past and I had never figured out a solution.  As you said, most responsible domain owners will eventually update their certificates...