Does Googlebot support TLS v1.2? If not, what will my TLS v1.2-only site look like to it?
Update: As of Jan 30, 2015, Googlebot supports TLS 1.2 . See Post by Google:
Googlebot now supports TLS version 1.2, in addition to previous versions: TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1 and SSLv3.
As of September 14th, 2014, the Googlebot does NOT support TLS 1.2. You get notified about 100% inaccessibility and thats it. I am affected by this directly. Using TLS 1.2 SSL enforcement to get on my page.
Here is the proof that Google doesn't like to crawl TLS 1.2 pages as of now:
Google should be able to handle all versions of SSL/TLS.
The best way to see how Google handles something is via Google Webmaster Tools.
Note: You have to have your site setup in Webmaster Tools for this to work. It's something you should consider anyway.
- Go to Webmaster Tools
- Select your site
- Select Crawl
- Select Fetch as Google