Peter wrote:
I bet you an airline in this situation would get it sorted immediately.
The airlines use a different interface, this is for GA. But yeah, if that different interface “goes down”, the alarms will sound faster and harsher to get it fixed.
Peter wrote:
Fax? There are still email2fax services.
I’m not aware of such a possibility. Frankly, in this situation, I would just call them on the phone (alas, there seems to be no phone number of the “right department”, only a general Marechaussee number…), ask the airport for a contact, etc.
So, no other way to file this form if their website is down? It’s incredible. I bet you an airline in this situation would get it sorted immediately.
Fax? There are still email2fax services.
I had tried using Edge
Firefox just tries again with www.gendec.eu
I reckon Chrome does that too because it works
But this shows various problems.
Peter_Mundy wrote:
gendec.eu works but it seems the SSL certificate is expired
No, gendec.eu exists and presents a certificate that is valid and not expired, but valid only for www.gendec.eu and www.gendec.nl, not for gendec.eu
On this failure, Chromium (and thus certainly also Google Chrome) shows the error message “Your connection is not private” with error code NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID, but Firefox just tries again with www.gendec.eu, like it does when the DNS entry doesn’t exist.
Another nice one 
Yeah, the cron job to renew the cert runs perfectly… until it breaks… That is why EuroGA is behind Cloudflare: if their HTTPS cert runs out, all hell breaks loose and they fix it immediately.
gendec.eu works but it seems the SSL certificate is expired
Edit and this is probably in the wrong forum
No; it’s fine here.
This kind of thing shows how programmer incompetence can drop a pilot into really deep sh*it because if some website fails and you still fly, you might get arrested.
IME the majority of people writing server-side code are inexperienced and just knock up something around some today-fashionable library (called “framework” in the right lingo). For something like gendec.eu they need to have two redundant servers, etc.
you do have to go to www.gendec.eu
A really basic stupid DNS config error. All the various combinations need to work. However, in Chrome, I can’t replicate it right now. But then the failure might have been only DNS anyway.
Well it’s working for me but you do have to go to www.gendec.eu
Its flaky to use though because you have to do things in the order that the programmer expected!
Panic over, it works now..
