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SecureNet blocking my website

enigma1985
4: Newbie

Hi there, I am the CEO of butlerbookings.co.uk and a number of our customers and staff members have reported that SecureNet is blocking Vodaphone users from our website.  It says the connection is not private but we have a valid SSL connection in place.  Is there anyway to get it whitelisted and get these issues resolved?  Thanks in advance if anyone is able to offer some help.

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Listen, if it was an SSL issue with the website then I wouldn't be able to access the same link using my phone on the EE network either yet it works perfectly fine for me with a working SSL certificate.  I can't post the link on here because it's sensitive but I have posted it on the twitter chat.

https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html If you would like evidence that our SSL certificate is valid please access this link and put in our website, www.butlerbookings.co.uk

 

You are trying to fob me off as usual, but don't worry we are not afraid of taking legal action against vodaphone regarding this.  We are a successful VAT registered company in the UK and you have no right to prevent us from operating.

Mark
Community Manager
Community Manager

Thank you for confirming the URL @enigma1985. I've just tried to connect to your website using a Vodafone mobile connection with an active Secure Net subscription and had no issues.  Before we proceed any further with our investigation, can you ask the the staff member if he has an active Secure Net subscription, as this is an optional service offered to our customers. Could you also ask your employee if the content control bar's been lifted on his service. Due to the nature of the the services offered by your site, this may prevent access.

If you could also ask your employee to refresh his connection to our network by restarting his device. If their phones not updated on our network for a while and is using an old connection, this can also cause error's to occur. 

I just got the same staff member to try and access the main website and he got this message, so sometimes he is getting the SSL error page and sometimes this page when accessing pages from our website. 

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I might add that he has no issues whatsoever when using the website with his WIFI, he only has issues whilst on the vodaphone mobile network

Mark
Community Manager
Community Manager

That is the message we'd expect a customer to receive if the site was being blocked by the content controls set by Secure Net. This will be due to the nature of the site and the service available through it. As most broadband service include their own content controls, Secure Net only monitors your use when connecting through our mobile network and this will explain why he can view the page via his WiFi connection. If your employee wishes to keep their Secure Net subscription and access your site, they will need to log into their Secure Net account and lower their content control settings. If they don't wish to continue to use this service, they can cancel their subscription through the My Vodafone app

Looking at the second message they've received, it appears the service is working as it should and the user settings on the app need to be updated.

Then why are some links bringing up an SSL error and others bringing up the Securenet page?  Surely all of them would bring up the Securenet page?  By bringing up the SSL error you're making it look like we have a problem with out website when we don't.  I am asking our employee to try disabling securenet and to test the links again...

Beth
Community Manager
Community Manager

@enigma1985 As my colleagues have advised, we've tested this with and without SecureNet active our side and aren't getting the same error that you are. We're able to access the website: https://www.butlerbookings.co.uk/, with no issues or SSL errors showing. If you have evidence of multiple Vodafone users receiving the same error, please ask the account holders to pop us a private message through our Social Media channels so we're able to investigate their specific line with them. I would also recommend that cache and cookies be cleared if this hasn't been done already

we have had the issue many times and have been reporting it with screenshots and links on the twitter chat since early February and it causing a lot pf problems and damage to our business.   The last time it happened was yesterday.