Issue: Untrusted Connection

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April 3, 2011 1:52 AM
pegasus

VaultWiki Team
Untrusted Connection

Some browsers (most notably Firefox 2 - 4) complain that vaultwiki.org has an SSL certificate verified by an untrusted source. This message does not appear in other popular browsers like Chrome, Safari, Opera, or Internet Explorer...

Tried rebooting the server with no success. Turns out there was a missing config line in nginx.conf that points to the root certificates. I suppose that some browsers had this information built-in, but Firefox wasn't aware of certain authority variations.

Code:

ssl_client_certificate /path/to/root.crt

All users should now be able to see the site automatically without the frightening "Untrusted Connection" warning message.

Issue Details

Issue Number 2306

Issue Type Bug

Project Site Issues

Category Unknown

Status Fixed

Priority 1 - Highest

Users able to reproduce bug 0

Users unable to reproduce bug 0

Attachments 0

Assigned Users (none)

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April 4, 2011 9:33 AM

sKippah

Junior Member

Well, i was open a new thread allready but NO, the error is still there and not only ff. I´ve tried FF4, IE8 and Opera11. All the Same Securitytoken Error.

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April 4, 2011 11:52 AM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

Okay, you are right. Unfortunately it is impossible to test this on any computer that has ever bypassed the error, even with caches disabled or cleared, so we have had to use browsershots.org. We especially thought the problem was solved, since GoogleBot has been able to crawl the site...

It appears that although it was fixed on FireFox 4 on our last offending computer, it was somehow not fixed for you. In any case it seems the ssl_client_certificate directive in nginx.conf does absolutely nothing (at least for browsers that have never seen "GeoTrust Extended Validation SSL CA" before) and we needed to concatenate all 3 SSL certificates into one file to get them to chain properly.

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April 4, 2011 3:17 PM

sKippah

Junior Member

Works now.

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Issue: Untrusted Connection

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