As a developer I want to be able to use self signed certificates easily when I test my in-development test sites with mozilla. How can I?
Mozilla peeps, As a developer I really want to be able to take responsibility for whether or not Firefox will access my sites. I really do need to be able to simply add a site to a trusted list have have Firefox let the certificate through. Without this option I'll be telling my clients that their sites won't be tested on Firefox and that they should encourage their users to use IE, Chrome or Safari.
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Hi RussellG59, Thank you for your question, as a developer I am sure it is important to be able to test these things.
There are guides that are available how to do this.
- https://blog.mozilla.org/security/201.../may-2015-ca-communication/
- Baseline requirements: https://cabforum.org/baseline-requirements/
- CA Inclusion Policy https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/g.../inclusion/
Your questions is specifically answered : https://blog.mozilla.org/security/fil.../HTTPS-FAQ.pdf under "What about corporate/development environments?"
If the pdf is slow: https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozillaRootCertificate
You would normally have to install the root certificate for this self signed certificate in Firefox.
Firefox uses its own certificate store and not the Windows (OS internal) certificate store like Google Chrome does.
What I really want is a message that says something like "we don't trust this certificate and bad things might happen if you go to this site, but go for it if you want" & then, obviously, a go for it button.
IE, Chrome et al do this. Firefox used to. It doesn't now so I don't test my sites against it anymore. Do a quick search peeps, I'm not the only one complaining about this.
what kind of error code is showing up on the page?