3.9.2

Only useful if you have had trouble connecting to eBay.

The test now identifies the certificate your server is shown

This is the check that settles who is interrupting a connection, and none of the earlier ones could.

The plugin verifies encryption on every request it makes. So if a reply arrives at all — rather than the connection being refused as untrustworthy — whatever answered must have presented a security certificate your server trusts for our name. There are only two ways that can happen:

• It holds our real certificate. Then it stands at our end, in front of our own server, and it is ours to explain.
• It holds a different one. Then something on your network is decrypting your traffic using an authority installed on your machine, and impersonating us.

The test now reports which certificate arrives, who issued it, and its full fingerprint. Compare that against the one we publish: if it differs, your requests are not reaching us at all, and that is a question for whoever runs your server.

What the check does

It opens an encrypted connection, looks at the certificate, and closes it again. Nothing is sent and nothing is trusted.