507645 - XmlHttpRequest no longer works with self-signed certificates

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.12) Gecko/2009070611 Firefox/3.0.12 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.12) Gecko/2009070611 Firefox/3.0.12 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

It appears that XmlHttpRequest no longer works with self-signed SSL certificates, and if you choose to ignore the popup, it will automatically fail the request.

This worked up until Firefox 3.

I know that several people including myself have created in-house extensions that rely on self-signed certificates, because these will never be seen from the outside. 

We are currently having to stick with Firefox 2.x.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Create extension that uses XmlHttpRequest to a server with self-signed certificate.
Actual Results:  
Request fails (invalid certificate)

Expected Results:  
I was expecting there to be an option to ignore SSL errors.

Comment 1

[Anne (:annevk)]

This is not something that we want to offer anymore.