384630 - Firefox on the Mac doesn't properly send the https security certificate information to the Java Web Start program

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[mvolaski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4

This bug is an extension of bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384628.

Even though Firefox on the Mac doesn't recognize a jnlp file, it does offer the user the chance to supply a program to open the file and here I can manually choose the Java Web Start program. However, the page I'm accessing this file from (through hardware with a web server, not an online site), is secured with https and in order for Java Web Start to work it apparently needs the security context associated with the session to launch properly but is not getting it. So  the Java Web Start program gives the error 

unable to find valid certification path

This works completely fine under the Windows version of Firefox.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported using Firefox 3.0 or older, which is no longer supported. The bug has also not been changed in over 500 days and is still in UNCO.
Reporter, please retest this bug in Firefox 3.6.10 or later using a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles. If you still see this problem, please update the bug. If you no longer see the bug, please set the resolution to RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

This is a mass search of unconfirmed bugs that have no activity on them, so if you feel a bug was marked in error, just remove the CLOSEME comment in the whiteboard within the next month.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.