Reply to post: Re: "We decided on a global fallback"

These truly are the end times for TLS 1.0, 1.1: Firefox hopes to 'eradicate' weak HTTPS standard by blocking it

DrXym

Re: "We decided on a global fallback"

You can get certs that work for IP addresses. Of course a secondary problem is that certs expire too and many embedded devices might even use self signed certs or certs signed by other certs which aren't in the browser's trusted certs list.

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