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Re: Problem with GF and SSL: IE accepts certificate but Firefox doesn't

From: Jeanfrancois Arcand <Jeanfrancois.Arcand_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:06:36 -0500

Thanks Stephan,

if you can blog about how you did it, that would be great! Or better,
you can add the steps to the troubleshooting guide here:

http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=TroubleshootingGuide

A+

-- Jeanfrancois


glassfish_at_javadesktop.org wrote:
> Hello Jeanfrancois,
>
> I finally solved this problem, and the end of the story is that the test certificate was not correctly imported into the keystore.
>
> In my original post I had mentioned three blog/wiki entries that I had read for instructions. But the one that I actually followed was the last one (http://blogs.sun.com/enterprisetechtips/entry/using_ssl_with_glassfish_v2), which proposes to use a small Java program to import the certificate into the keystore. This Java program seems not to work correctly in my case.
>
> After rereading the instructions of the certificate provider I imported the certificate with keytool, and that did work. Also Firefox does now see the intermediate certificates and accepts the test certificate without any warning.
>
> Thanks
> Stephan
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