256921 - Dialog for expired SPOP cert stalls all browser/irc/news traffic till dismissed

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Security, defect)

Description

[Richard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040823
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040823

My ISP has some of the pop servers with an out of date Cert, and refuse to
resolve this as its not a core service.

When I get load balanced to one of those servers, I get a strange dialog
advising that the cert is out of date, offering to view the cert.

There is no option to permanantly accept this cert, and while that dialog is
present, it seems that all TCP connections are just dead in the water. The
dialog isnt modal and often appears under other windows or on a different
monitor to the one I am working on, so is a pain to locate sometimes.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use ISP with SPOP and out of date cert
2. Get the dialog popping up
3. Try to keep using browser without dismissing dialog, it will not operate.



Expected Results:  
The mail connection perhaps should stall, but none of the others, also there
should be a way to perminantly add that cert to a list of acceptable ones.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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