Hade Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 I've just purchased an SSL certificate from GoDaddy, which I had installed by my ISP. It loads up fine in IE, no prompts etc. but Firefox prompts to accept the certificate. The cert should be from a trusted root, so I'm baffled. I had my ISP reinstall it and it's no better. Can an SSL wizard please check it out please. Who's to blame? GoDaddy or my ISP? I'm guessing they're going to start blaming each other. Try Here: https://wizmomagic.co.uk Read the forum rules... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidinottawa Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 I've just purchased an SSL certificate from GoDaddy, which I had installed by my ISP. It loads up fine in IE, no prompts etc. but Firefox prompts to accept the certificate. The cert should be from a trusted root, so I'm baffled. I had my ISP reinstall it and it's no better. Can an SSL wizard please check it out please. Who's to blame? GoDaddy or my ISP? I'm guessing they're going to start blaming each other. Try Here: https://wizmomagic.co.uk Isn't it the persons individual browser settings that determine whether or not to request acceptance for a certificate or not ? I tried your site in Netscape, Fiefox and IE IE did not ask. Firefox and Netscaper did ask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hade Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 Isn't it the persons individual browser settings that determine whether or not to request acceptance for a certificate or not ? I tried your site in Netscape, Fiefox and IE IE did not ask. Firefox and Netscaper did ask. IE (and I believe Firefox too) Has an internal list of trusted root certificate issuers. So certs which trace back to these are trusted by default. Mine should be trusted by default, as it traces back to GoDaddy, but for some reason it is not for firefox or netscape. You can view the list of trusted roots in IE: Tools > Internet Options > Content Tab > Certificates > Trusted Root Tab Read the forum rules... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeloftime Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 This Go Daddy issued SSL is not a default trusted authority with Firefox and Opera but it is with IE(6). Appearantly they only paid MS to add the certifcate to the trusted root ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hade Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 This Go Daddy issued SSL is not a default trusted authority with Firefox and Opera but it is with IE(6). Appearantly they only paid MS to add the certifcate to the trusted root ones. No! Say it isn't so! I'm sure that can't be right, as I'm quite sure I went on a site with a GoDaddy cert using firefox and got no prompts. Read the forum rules... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeloftime Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 No! Say it isn't so!I'm sure that can't be right, as I'm quite sure I went on a site with a GoDaddy cert using firefox and got no prompts. If you look at the default installed trusted root certficate authorities for the browsers you will see that IE has Go Daddy Class 2 Certificates authorized with them. That one however is not with Opera 9 and Firefox 2.x which causes the warnings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toeknee Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Weird I don't even use efirefox, but the firefox on my comp has godaddy class 2 cert already on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natewlew Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Firefox does not trust your Godaddy cert. My Godaddy cert says its signed by Starfied Technologies. Other great Open Source (Free) programs: (Free as in free speech not free beer) The Gimp - An image program. | Firefox - All you have to do is add the Web Developer add-on to make this web browser complete. | FileZilla - An ftp program. | Inkscape - A good program to create images with. | Thunderbird - An email program. | Openoffice.org - An office suite that is compatible with MS Office. | Abiword - Another office suite. | Audacity - A sound recording tool. | ddp's Picks | Wordpress - An easy to use blogging software. | Joomla - An easy to use CMS that has ecommerce plug-ins. | Drupal - Another CMS How do I find these programs? Google Search! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 My GoDaddt cert is signed by Starfield Technologies also. I do remember having to install an Intermediate certificate first. The instructions for it are contained within the zip file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hade Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 GoDaddy have said the intermediate cert was not installed propely. It seems my ISP are a little incompetent when it comes to installing certs properly... Read the forum rules... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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