263912 - If I try loading a .p12 certificate, the browser does a no-op

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect)

Description

[P Fudd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

If I try loading a p12-encoded client-side certificate into the browser, nothing
happens.  The previous page is not cleared, no error is produced, nothing.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Try loading the given .p12 file
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens, except the location bar is now the .p12 url.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should open a dialog box asking if I want to import this certificate,
and would I please enter the password that the certificate is encrypted with. 
At least that's what IE and Opera do.

The certificate is signed by a CA that I created and self-signed, reachable at
https://jtmmx.jacobs.ca:442/cacert.pem

Comment 1

[P Fudd]

For an un-encrypted session, try:
http://jtmmx.jacobs.ca:89/newcert.p12

If you do succeed in getting a dialog box happening, the password on the
certificate is asdfasdf.

This is on a Fedora Core 2 box.

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

-> psm

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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