730222 - Different SSL certificate checks on decision to display page and import certificate

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 659736

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[rik]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2
Build ID: 20120215223356

Steps to reproduce:

A device has generated a certificate for itself before it was configured with a host name. The certificate is for localhost.localdomain, and is self-signed. I can not add the certificate to the database.


Actual results:

On visiting the SSL configuration tool on the device, the untrusted connection dialog is presented with technical details saying that the certificate is not trusted because it is self-signed and the certificate is only valid for localhost.localdomain. Error code is sec_error_untrusted_issuer.

On adding the exception the "Add Security Exception" dialog tells me that: "This site provides valid, verified identification. There is no need to add an exception".


Expected results:

If a certificate is reported as invalid then it should be consistently reported as invalid and allow me to import it, somehow.

Comment 1

[rik]

This has been present since v7 at least. It's still present in v10.0.2 but I haven't checked any nightlies. I have checked th existing bug db but not found anything matching.