[Xerte-dev] Re: Toolkits not working with firefox 24 and later

[Smith, John]

Hi Andrew,

This doesn't seem to be specific to Xerte but to the certificate that is being used to authenticate the https connection that that server is running. It is not fixable by patching any php code.

This should be raised by the server administrator as it is a server issue.

Regards,

John Smith | Learning Technologist
Room A251, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences | Glasgow Caledonian University
Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Andrew Gold [Andrew.Gold at manchester.ac.uk]
Sent: 17 April 2014 12:25
To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Toolkits not working with firefox 24 and later

Having recently upgraded my Firefox browser to 24 I’m getting the following error message:

Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to xerte.humanities.manchester.ac.uk.
Peer's Certificate has been revoked.
(Error code: sec_error_revoked_certificate)

·         The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.

·         Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem. Alternatively, use the command found in the help menu to report this broken site.

Apparently, the workaround is to stop using OCSP to confirm the validity of certificates for certificate validation.

I’m not sure if this is a feature of our local installation of Xerte Toolkits, but can I ask if Xerte Toolkits code could be amended in the relevant php file to accommodate Firefox?  Otherwise, Toolkits becomes unusable with a popular (with some) browser (unless security settings are reduced).

Kind Regards,

Andrew Gold, Learning Technologist, University of Manchester




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