[Python-Dev] https:bugs.python.org -- Untrusted Connection (Firefox)

[Oleg Broytman]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 04:14:25PM -0400, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 9/2/2014 1:49 AM, Oleg Broytman wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 08:32:27PM -0500, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>I got the same in Chrome on my Mac.
> >>
> >>Skip
> >>On Sep 1, 2014 8:00 PM, "John Wong" <gokoproject at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>As of today I still am getting untrusted cert thought I would re-ping to
> >>>see if there is an ETA.
> >
> >    The signing certificate is still CAcert. One can install their root
> >certificate from http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3
> 
> This seems not to work for Firefox. "Windows installer package for
> browsers that use the Windows certificate store (for example
> Internet Explorer, Chrome on Windows and Safari on Windows)"
> 
> I installed it anyway, closed and reopened Firefox (but not
> rebooted) and https://bugs.python.org still gives Untrusted message.

   Did you install it in the Firefox own certificate manager?

http://wiki.cacert.org/FAQ/BrowserClients#Mozilla_Firefox

   "Firefox uses it's own Certificate Manager. So even if your Windows
(and other Microsoft) applications already use a root certificate
Firefox still might not."

Oleg.
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