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Wow. This has been going on for an hour now. It's such a simple fix, especially since one would assume that they already have a valid cert somewhere (or that Akamai does). Yet they've had an hour of SSL downtime.

Does anyone know if Bing has any SSL-only clients? Like do any of their toolbars or built-in search widgets in Windows use SSL by default?




Easy fix? What the hell?

I don't like or use Bing services but when you get as big and complex as Bing, nothing is easy, it's not like you can open your text editor, modify one line, commit and push.

There so many other variables to take into consideration, by hurrying to fix, you could face all sort of vulnerabilities / other issues.

I'm not saying this error is acceptable, I'm saying it's ridiculous to say it's and easy fix without actually knowing anything, it might or it might now.


This is not new and probably will not be fixed fast - the situation has been like that (unchanged) since at least 2011.


I think it's always been like this. Bing has never run over https as far as I can tell.


According to MS guys this is not an error, SSL is supported at https://ssl.bing.com/ which is what their tools use.





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