769517 - Security exception dialogue will not go away

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 487498

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Description

[Ross Boylan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1
Build ID: 20120614114901

Steps to reproduce:

I was connected via SSL (port 993) to a host with a self-signed, expired certificate.
I setup port forwarding (via ssh in cygwin) and changed the account to use localhost with the mapped port 9933.  I hit OK.  A dialogue box came up saying that the certificate was no good because it was expired and had the wrong name.  I think I hit view certificate.  Then I hit "confirm security exception."

Environment: t-bird 13.0.1 build 20120614161456; 32 bit Windows 7; Symantec endpoint protection 12.1; newly installed cygwin using an ssh tunnel.

There are a bunch of similar bugs (searching on certificate exception), though they mostly seem to be in Firefox.


Actual results:

The security dialogue came right back up.  Repeated attempts, as well as hitting cancel, did not dismiss it.  Eventually I hit the close icon on the window.  I think it took several tries, but the window eventually went away.

I am not sure if it is now using the tunnel or not.  tools | account settings | server settings shows server name localhost, port 9933.  But the help | troubleshooting page shows the name as (imap) biostat.ucsf.edu:9933 which is the remote host name and the local port.


Expected results:

When I confirmed the exception it should have moved on, connecting to the site (biostat.ucsf.edu).

Comment 1

[Hashem Masoud]

See bug 487498.