Comment 6 for bug 589877

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Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak) wrote : Re: [Bug 589877] Re: epiphany (webkit) does not verify SSL certificates

It looks like newer epiphany uses the system-wide certificate pool in
/etc/ssl/certs, which (on my system) includes cacert.

It's still the case that this notification (for the bottom-left) is a tiny,
and insufficient warning that you're leaving a safe transmission medium.

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:45, Jeremy Nickurak <email address hidden> wrote:

> Importing certificates is a different bug,
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/epiphany-extensions/+bug/42476 .
> epiphany/gecko is unrelated, as it's entirely obsolete, deprecated, and
> unsupported, afaik.
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> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:30, Jamie Strandboge <email address hidden> wrote:
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>> I should also mention that there doesn't seem to be a way to import a CA.
>> Eg, one test I perform for xulrunner updates is:
>> 1. go to https://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=1 and verify the browser
>> prompts for untrusted certificate
>> 2. go to http://www.cacert.org/certs/root.crt to import the certificate
>> 3. go to https://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=1 and verify the browser
>> does not prompt
>>
>> 1 and 2 do not work with epiphany/webkit, but do with epiphany/gecko.
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>> epiphany (webkit) does not verify SSL certificates
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589877
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