FWIW, my opinion is that the vender should reissue with the SAN.

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On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Kevin A. McGrail <kmcgr...@pccc.com> wrote:
> The cert in use is for *.apache.org and does not have a Subject Alternate
> Name for just apache.org without a subdomain.
>
> This leaves 2 primary course of actions:
>
> - request the vendor we got our cert from (Symantec) add the SAN and
> reissue.  They sometimes will do so.
> - buy and install a cert for apache.org for the website without www. and
> redir to the www.apache.org website
>
> Other courses of action:
>
> - remove the DNS entry for A/CNAME for apache.org so it doesn't resolve to
> anything
> - ignore the issue (it's been reported a few times already and likely won't
> stop)
>
> Regards,
> KAM
>
> On 5/22/2015 12:36 AM, vamsi katepalli wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This Url works for me https://www.apache.org but it gives the same error
>> for https://apache.org <https://apache.org/>
>>
>> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Niclas Hedhman <nic...@hedhman.org
>> <mailto:nic...@hedhman.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     I am not sure who should be contacted, but https://apache.org
>>     doesn't match
>>     the *.apache.org <http://apache.org> SSL Certificate and one gets
>>     a big fat warning in modern
>>     browsers that the site shouldn't be trusted.
>>
>>     I think it needs to be corrected...
>>
>>     Cheers
>>     --
>>     Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer
>>     http://zest.apache.org - New Energy for Java
>>
>>
>

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