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galdanbalkan
September 4th, 2016, 03:28 PM
The official site ubuntu.com is without https supportq but help.ubuntu.com has https and the connection is private.
Is this normal ?

sisco311
September 4th, 2016, 03:33 PM
Not a support request. Moved to the Cafe.

galdanbalkan
September 4th, 2016, 04:36 PM
mint.com has certificate. How to be shure, that i am on real site ubuntu.com ?

Bucky Ball
September 4th, 2016, 04:43 PM
Welcome. Linux MINT has nothing to do with the Canonical sites you are talking about. Not related. Mint is not a flavour officially supported by Canonical, despite the fact it is based on it. The fact that these two addresses do not start the same way means nothing as there is no relationship between the two sites.

I do a search for 'ubuntu.com' the first link on the page is at this address:

http://www.ubuntu.com/

Looks like the place. On the other hand, if I jump to the wiki page from there I get this:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CommunityHelpWiki

One http, one https. Those two pages are definitely related, even though the http(s) are different for both. Also means little. The https is a little more secure from what I've heard, but no expert on that.

cariboo
September 4th, 2016, 09:41 PM
If you find it worrisome that www.ubuntu.com doesn't use https, you can always create a bug against the web site on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ you need to have an account, you can use your Ubuntu One account to log in.