[ale] Firefox-3 and authorizing home-made certs

[Chris Fowler]

FF3's certificate warnings are scary compared to FF2.  What we have done 
is started the process of getting a valid certificate for a server.  As 
far as the devices, it is not cost effective to get a cert for each one.

John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
>
> We use s self-signed certificate from an unrecognized authority 
> (ourselves) on devices to which we connect _via_ web browser using 'https' 
> SSL links. Firefox-2 would flash a warning at this, but could suppress 
> future warnings against the same certificate.
>
> With Firefox-3 it seems that each time a questionable certificate is 
> offered by a new connection, I must authorize a new exception. Is there 
> some way I can make a specific certificate automatically acceptable when 
> it is offered to my browser by a new web server?
>
> Thanks.
>
>   - Mills
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