Secure Website Certificate Expired - How to workaround?
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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 Administrator, Moderator, Employee, RapidMiner Certified Analyst, RapidMiner Certified Expert Posts: 955
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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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yeah I have a hunch what you're referring to
Unfortunately I don't have any ideas at the moment...
Scott
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!![:) :)](https://community.rapidminer.com/resources/emoji/smile.png)
Yep, that worked @BalazsBarany! Fingers crossed that the certificate gets renewed in the next couple of days.
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...
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