I was surprised to see that Cancer Research UK had a certificate error caused by them using two canonical names with one certificate - this would work with a wildcard certificate, but not the one they have.
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Then I searched for the NSPCC online donation page through Google and came to this page which has a message from their web developer about their CMS and an SSL error - in this case some insecure content on a secure page.
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None of this looks good, especially given the resources these organisations have. Its nowhere near good practice.
Interestingly I then searched for Barnardos Scotland on Google which displayed a link that was a 404 error, although manually typing the displayed address in worked. Thats a Google fault rather than a barnardos one though.
All very interesting, and I suspect the result of insufficient ongoing testing of their web site processes. I know from my time in the web hosting and domain registration industry that we had to regularly test our order processing systems to make sure they were behaving as expected.
