280816 - annoying SSL warning

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Colin Alston]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Firefox has a bloody anoying SSL "Domain Name Mismatch" warning that has no
option to be disabled.

This occurs on lots of sites, and isn't as critical as needs warning constantly
- there is no option to disable this warning

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto a poorly configured SSL site who didnt want to pay Versign $1 billion 
2. Also... Run Smoothwall


Actual Results:  
Firefox behaves anoyingly as expected

Expected Results:  
I should be able to tell it to "STFU NOW K THNX"

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

>This occurs on lots of sites, and isn't as critical as needs warning constantly

It's critical because it could be a "man in the middle" attack.
The server should use a valid certificate or it shouldn't use HTTPS.

-> wontfix

Comment 2

[Colin Alston]

I agree that it isnt a bug/error - I just would like a seriously unrecommended
option (burried somewhere if possible) to mute the warning.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Its not going to happen.  The people who own the SSL library long ago fought a
long battle to keep that prefless, its not going to change.

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change