On 10/22/10 8:17 PM, JD wrote:
> David E. Ross wrote:
>> On 10/22/10 6:48 PM, JD wrote:
>>> David E. Ross wrote:
>>>> On 10/22/10 8:01 AM, JD wrote:
>>>>> OK, no takers on the first post so, how do I add a security certificate
>>>>> to SM? I've looked through Help but it's not very clear to me.
>>>>>
>>>>>    From what I can tell, Verisign has updated something and SM 2.09 is not
>>>>> recognizing the change.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Welcome to the wonderful world of over-protecting users.  See the
>>>> following bug reports, none of which seem to have much support among
>>>> developers:
>>>> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545498>
>>>> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548380>
>>>> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558222>
>>>>
>>>
>>> It appears this worked for me:
>>>
>>> What is the value of browser.xul.error_pages.enabled in about:config?
>>> If it is true, as is default in Firefox, an SSL error on a full page or
>>> frame should give an error page with an "Add Exception" button instead
>>> of a pop-up.
>>>
>>> Mine was user set as false and changing it to true gave me the add
>>> exception button.
>>>
>>> I can't thank you enough for pointing me to the bug reports where I
>>> could finally find out how to over-ride this setting.
>>>
>>
>> As I pointed out in bug #548380, the preference variable
>> browser.xul.error_pages.enabled controls too many unrelated error
>> situations.  I prefer to leave it false so that an invalid domain causes
>> an error popup instead of a new error page.
>>
> 
> It was the only way I found to be able to view the web page I was being 
> denied access to.
> 
> Was there a better solution that I didn't see?
> 

Unfortunately, no.

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