On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:06:42 -0400
"Moz Champion (Dan)" <moz.champion@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> All I get at the link provided is
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> Secure Connection Failed
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> www.cacert.org uses an invalid security certificate.
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> The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is
> unknown.
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> (Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)
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> * This could be a problem with the server's configuration, or it
> could be someone trying to impersonate the server.
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> * If you have connected to this server successfully in the past,
> the error may be temporary, and you can try again later.
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> Or you can add an exception…

It's really horrible UI, as far as I'm concerned. To get any info
about the certificate, you have to

1) Click that Oor you can add an exception..." link at the bottom of the
warning page. Note that clicking that doesn't actually add the
exception, as anyone would think it would.

2) Click on the "Add Exception" button that appears after step (1).
Note that clicking the "Add Exception" button also does *not* add the
exception. Now we at least see where the certificate will come from.

3) Click the "Get Certificate" button. This button at least makes
sense, and results in the certificate being downloaded.

4) Now we can click "View" to see something about the certificate.

But note again we had to click *two* things that said "add exception"
before we got to step 4. That's very bad, IMO -- any user who
doesn't know what's going on would be scared to click them.

5) After viewing, we can choose to confirm the security exception
either temporarily or permanently.

Also note that if you do it permanently and later want to get delete
the security exception, you will waste your time if you try the
Security tab of Options/Preferences -- you can only do it from the
Advanced tab.