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

Scott Castaline hscast at charter.net
Wed Jul 9 12:12:00 EDT 2008


Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net> wrote:
>   
>> I have the same problem with my HP printer and FF3. The printer has a
>> network interface with web access. Is it safe to set "Select one
>> automatically" under Preferences -> Advanced -> Encryption ->
>> Certificates? It seems that under the default of ask me everytime I have
>> to go into View Certificates -> Other and delete the one created for my
>> printer. Or should I go with allowing the creation of the cert., export
>> it and then import it into Servers category and leave the option set to
>> "Ask me every time."?
>>     
>
> Printers and wifi APs, that support SSL, will auto regenerate their
> SSL certs each time after a restart.  So, if you add the printer/AP
> cert to your browser it will only work until you reboot the device.
> After that, you will not be able to access the device until you remove
> the existing client-side cert and replace it with the new copy issued
> by the device.
>   
As I turn everything off at night, is there a way to tell FF3 to accept 
the new SSL Cert issued from a particular device unconditionally?
> -Jim P.
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