I believe that's a standard limitation of wildcard SSL certs.

See my recent post here:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/browse_thread/thread/13f4674c5ef0a83f/2b3a8d16b96d9c0c


On Aug 25, 5:19 pm, Robert Kluin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I only get a certificate error if I go tohttps://test.xx.appspot.com.  I do 
> not get errors going tohttps://xx.appspot.com.
>
> I tested with IE and Chrome and Windows.
>
> RobertOn Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 05:27, Carlos Rodrigues 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi again,
>
> > Any ideas? This is a show-stopper as far as secure applications go...
>
> > Best regards,
>
> > On Aug 23, 12:39 pm, Carlos Rodrigues <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
>
> >> I'm developing a small application on GAE that requires HTTPs, however
> >> I'm having some trouble with the "*.appspot.com" certificate.
>
> >> O Chrome, Safari and IE on Windows I get a certificate validation
> >> error. This error appears to be related to the certificate validation
> >> path, because the topmost authority is "Google Internet Authority" and
> >> show as "Not found".
>
> >> On Firefox there is no error, and the certificate chain correctly
> >> shows Equifax as the root CA and "Google Internet Authority" as an
> >> intermediate CA.
>
> >> On the Mac both Firefox and Safari work without showing any errors.
>
> >> Is there a way around this? I can't expect users to trust the
> >> application if they get a certificate error on Windows in every
> >> browser except Firefox.
>
> >> So a summary of tested browsers:
>
> >>   * Internet Explorer 8 (Windows): error
> >>   * Safari (Windows): error
> >>   * Safari (OS X): OK
> >>   * Chrome (Windows): error
> >>   * Firefox (Windows): OK
> >>   * Firefox (OS X): OK
>
> >> It appears that browsers which use the integrated certificate
> >> infrastructure on Windows are affected, and others are not.
>
> >> I know that Windows supports intermediate CAs because I've tested it.
> >> But it seems to require that the website itself provides the
> >> intermediate CAs certificate (for example, on Apache this would be the
> >> "SSLCertificateChainFile /path/to/intermediate-ca.crt" option).
>
> >> Google App Engine does not appear to do this.
>
> >> Best regards,
> >>    Carlos Rodrigues
>
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