Firefox And Certificates

[!!blue]

I *love* Firefox... LOVE it! So my only prob is aptly described below (a post on the Mozilla Forums by someone with a similar prob):

You probably visited your IPCop's SSL page at one point, told FireFox to "Accept this certificate permanently" then later did a wipe and reinstall of IPCop and are visiting the same SSL page. What FireFox then notices is the SSL key itself is completely different than the one you told it to accept before and refuses to allow further connections to that source until you tell it that it should trust that new key. If you are absolutely sure the connection isn't being hijacked (like over an untrusted connection), you could fix this issue by deleting the key you have stored for that server and then reconnecting to the SSL page as usual and "accept this certificate permanently" of the new key.

 

To delete the old key visit:

Tools -> Options -> Advanced

then click "Certificates" and then "Manage Certificates"

Then on either the "Other sites" or "Web Sites" tabs will have a key listed that was the old key for your IPCop setup before it changed. Highlight that old key, click delete then OK out of the dialog boxes and visit the SSL page again and accept the new key.

 

This happened after Server 27 was re-built(?) from a backup a while back. So how can I find out which key is for my website www.zoblue.com on Server 27.

 

I submitted a Help Desk ticket concerning *adding* the new certificate and was told I couldn't do it (cuz it won't overwrite the existing one). Hence the need to know what certificate my site uses to be able to delete it and re-add it.

 

thanks in advance

!!blue

Edited May 22, 2004 by !!blue

[!!blue]

Ok for those of you dying of curiosity: I've officially answered my own question (that phenomenon that always happens when you post a question ) I accessed my cpanel via IE (using https://) and when I got the "accept this certificate? yes or no or view" dialog box, I clicked on [view certificate] and compared the info there with the various certificates I have in Firefox--side by side.

 

So I found which one to delete (plain.rackshack.net i think) and viola was able to add it again once I visited my cpanel in FireFox!! Hope that helps someone!!

 

later,

!!blue

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