285735 - Hex display of "CRL Distribution Points" and "Authority Information Access" certificate fields in certificate viewer

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[sinm]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

I'm not sure its actualy a bug, but cant see plain text URLs of AIA and CDP
services. And why cant i download and install appropriate CA certificate or
actual CRL? Matter of fact it should be great as a feature if one receives
signed message w/o root chain certs.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open certificate viewer

Actual Results:  
Fields in subj. displayed in hex format

Expected Results:  
Should be displayed in plain text

Comment 1

[Brant Gurganus]

Internet Explorer displays this as text.  Some issues related to Authority
Information Access prevent Mozilla from properly resolving the trust chain for
some certificates.  See
http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2004/6/4.aspx for one detailed
example of the issue.

Comment 2

[sinm]

so it's openssl feature. And what now? Is it possible in theory to implement
some kind of CryptoAPI plugin for windows build? That could solve many other
problems as well.

Comment 3

[Bob Lord]

Seemed fixed in the current TB3 release.