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Check your SSL certificate!
As we know the web is an increasingly unsafe place, with malicious spam links and viruses everywhere. Since 1st October 2011 Facebook has required a valid SSL Certificate for all pages and applications hosted outside of Facebook, such as our ‘Your website in Facebook’ application. Our Profile Builder interface application creates externally hosted content and places this via an iframe into a Facebook Business Page and it is this which is certified as being safe through our SSL certificate. This stipulation has made Facebook a safe place to browse and view content, even where it is from an external source.The SSL Certificate is an annual licence and ours was up for annual renewal this week – unfortunately you have to obtain a fresh certificate each time and for a couple of hours our new one had not kicked in, blocking the viewing of our sites temporarily! All was back to normal quickly though, but it reinforces the need to a) check you have an SSL certificate in the first place if you need one and b) be aware of its expiry date and ensure you make provision to have a new one!
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Mark Beaumont-Thomas
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