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		ck2 on Dec 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gmail now refusing to fetch using self-signed cert... If you are using a self-signed cert, your content is probably available over http anyway so you wouldn't want duplication of http + https or you'll get a penalty. Just use a free startssl cert if it's important to be indexed via https

telent on Dec 14, 2012 [–]

Er, this is email we're talking about here, not http

ck2 on Dec 14, 2012 | [–]

Ugh thanks for pointing that out - way too early for me and I glossed over the "gmail" part vs google.

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