1267684 - When complaining about bad certificate dates (expired etc.), tell user if their clock is wrong

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Bug 712612 adds some code to about:neterror to let the user know their clock is skewed and is causing certificate errors.

Firefox Android has a fork of about:neterror and needs to update its code to add the functionality.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

FWIW, the about:neterror/about:certerror pages we use in desktop were recently made responsive. I thought the idea was to share that code with mobile. If so, that might be easier to implement than reimplementing this particular feature in the Android fork of about:net/certerror.

Comment 2

[:Margaret Leibovic]

(In reply to :Gijs Kruitbosch from comment #1)
> FWIW, the about:neterror/about:certerror pages we use in desktop were
> recently made responsive. I thought the idea was to share that code with
> mobile. If so, that might be easier to implement than reimplementing this
> particular feature in the Android fork of about:net/certerror.

It would be great if we could share the code, but I don't think anyone has done an investigation to understand how feasible that is. We've already forked the logic for our error pages to include things like a search box, and I don't think that exists for desktop.

Updating the error pages isn't a high priority for us, so if this is a lot of work, it may be hard to prioritize.

Comment 4

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Note that Bug 712612 uses Kinto to detect clock skew. We could also use the build date as a starting point — lots of wrong clocks have very old dates like 1999 or 2001 or 1970, so our build date is adequate.

Comment 5

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