Bug 168342 - Wrong mime types for certificates and revokation lists
Summary: Wrong mime types for certificates and revokation lists
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: httpd
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Joe Orton
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-09-15 07:01 UTC by Peio Popov
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-04-25 12:22:40 UTC
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Description Peio Popov 2005-09-15 07:01:56 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Fedora/1.0.6-1.2.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6

Description of problem:
mod_ssl adds two new mime types in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf 
AddType application/x-x509-ca-cert .crt
AddType application/x-pkcs7-crl    .crl

Accordind to rfc2585 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2585.html) the correct records should be:
AddType application/pkix-cert .crt
AddType application/pkix-crl  .crl 

Both mime types are included in /etc/mime.types but they have no files associated with them.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mod_ssl-2.0.46 

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
It is a configuration issue.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Joe Orton 2005-09-15 11:50:54 UTC
Thanks for the report.

The problem is that Mozilla/Firefox recognize the legacy x-* MIME types and will
prompt the user to import the cert/CRL into the user profile.   They do *not*
recognize the pkix-* types, unfortunately.  So changing this in a RHEL3 update
would cause a compatibility issue.


Comment 2 Joe Orton 2007-04-25 12:22:40 UTC
Per above comment - since the default types used must be compatible with
Mozilla/Firefox, these cannot be changed.


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