Bug 709721

Summary:	Firefox cannot load SSL sites with self-signed certs
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Gerald Britton <gbritton>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	15	CC:	BobLfoot, gecko-bugs-nobody, mcepl
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Gerald Britton 2011-06-01 13:34:22 UTC

Description of problem:

Firefox opening of SSL sites with self-signed certificates fails with a bizzare "The URL is invalid and cannot be loaded." error.  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

firefox-4.0.1-2.fc15.x86_64
nss-3.12.10-1.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit https://www.cacert.org/ (or another self-signed cert site)
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
"The URL is invalid and cannot be loaded."

Expected results:
Untrusted site/add exception dialog should be displayed.

Additional info:

This upstream bug appears related, but seems to claim it's a distro bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624353

Comment 1 Robert Lightfoot 2011-06-19 21:30:06 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> Firefox opening of SSL sites with self-signed certificates fails with a bizzare
> "The URL is invalid and cannot be loaded." error.  
> 
> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> 
> firefox-4.0.1-2.fc15.x86_64
> nss-3.12.10-1.fc15.x86_64
> 
> How reproducible:
> 
> Always.
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Visit https://www.cacert.org/ (or another self-signed cert site)
> 2.
> 3.
> 
> Actual results:
> "The URL is invalid and cannot be loaded."
> 
> Expected results:
> Untrusted site/add exception dialog should be displayed.
> 
> Additional info:
> 
> This upstream bug appears related, but seems to claim it's a distro bug:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624

I was unable to re-create this bug on F15-x86_64 and firefox and nss versions listed when attempted 2011-06-19.

Comment 2 Gerald Britton 2011-06-19 21:37:17 UTC

Curiously I just found that the firefox package was missing:
/usr/lib64/firefox-4/components
/usr/lib64/firefox-4/extensions
/usr/lib64/firefox-4/langpacks

I suspect they didn't survive the upgrade from Fedora 14 which I believe
had firefox and firefox4 packages installed.

After reinstalling the firefox package, my problem has gone away.

Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2011-07-21 22:47:31 UTC

Thank you for letting us know.