591520 - Firefox Home 1.0.2 does not support custom servers with self-signed certs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Cloud Services Graveyard :: Firefox Home, defect)

Comment 1

[Dan Walkowski]

Firefox Home 1.0.2 is too strict, and does not support https:// servers with self-signed certs

Comment 3

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

Example of website:
https://fisheye.last.fm

Comment 4

[Stefan Arentz | :st3fan | ⏰ EST | he/him]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Example of website:
> https://fisheye.last.fm

Naoki, that should be a separate bug. This one is about the Custom Sync Server, not about sites shown in the built-in browser. Good catch though :-)

I created https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609498

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This should only be allowed during setup, not later, IMO.  There's a similar bug for FxSync

Comment 6

[Stefan Arentz | :st3fan | ⏰ EST | he/him]

I assume that means: we should ask for confirmation during setup and then silently accept that cert for all future sync sessions until the cert (id, hash, whatever) changes.

Comment 7

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Yes, that's my thinking.  Basically, like the SSH model (accept fingerprint, raise hell if that changes).

Comment 8

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

This will help web authors run their own servers and not have to purchase SSL licenses

Comment 9

[Joshua]

It seems I was able to work around this finally with the latest Firefox Home update.

In the app's configuration "Settings > Firefox Home" I switched "Use Safari" to on. I had previously added my self signed CA to Mobile Safari.

I also had to modify get_user_location() (using MySQL) to return 'https://example.com' so that the server would return a 200 result.

After setting up my account, I then was able to switch "Use Safari" back to off.

Comment 10

[u407442]

I'm also not able to get Firefox Home (1.1.1) working with my own weave Server.
After set up the Server URL like https://example.de/weave/ I get the error:

"Authentication failure (Communication to the Server (1) failed)"

I translated the message. In german it is:

"Anmeldung fehlgeschlagen (Kommunikation zum Server (1) fehlgeschlagen)"

Is there any fix to get run the App with my own Server and set up the Settings like Joshua or something like that?

Comment 11

[iXô]

(In reply to comment #10)
> I'm also not able to get Firefox Home (1.1.1) working with my own weave
> Server.
> After set up the Server URL like https://example.de/weave/ I get the error:
> 
> "Authentication failure (Communication to the Server (1) failed)"
> 
> I translated the message. In german it is:
> 
> "Anmeldung fehlgeschlagen (Kommunikation zum Server (1) fehlgeschlagen)"
> 
> Is there any fix to get run the App with my own Server and set up the
> Settings like Joshua or something like that?

Same thing here, bug I can add this : I can't see any connection from FFHome to my private server, it didn't even try to ask for something to my server (no entry in the apache log)

Comment 12

[Allison Naaktgeboren :ally]

The Firefox Home project has been retired, and Mozilla will no longer invest in future work on this project [1]. All bugs related to Firefox Home are being mass resolved.

For those interested in continuing work on this app, the source code for Firefox Home is available on Github [2].

[1] http://blog.mozilla.org/services/2012/08/31/retiring-firefox-home/
[2] https://github.com/mozilla-services/ios-sync-client