The cert is self signed. Whats is the conclusion, chrome is violating the RFC? 
It DOES let me proceed.

On 10/6/14 5:52 PM, Scott (firstclasswatches.co.uk) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Not strictly a httpd specific issue but nevertheless, Chrome/Firefox 
> should ignore the header because it is not delivered with a valid 
> certificate and thus there is no way of knowing if it was actually 
> issued by the website.

Spec says in this exact case, the TLS connection should be refused:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6797#section-11.3

> You should get the expected result if you first respond with an HSTS 
> header in a valid TLS request and then /future/ requests should be 
> prevented from proceeding if there is a certificate error.
> 
> This is why HSTS are being preloaded for major websites as that would 
> to cover the first request. For your average website there isn't 
> currently a solution to this.

- -chris

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