[HELP] Certificate is not approved for the attempted operation

[Christopher Potter]

This problem occurs with release 4.04, 4.05 and 4.5 when trying
to connect a WEB site having a certificate not approved by a trusted
authority (with https).

Is it possible to remove this strong security check or be able
to add a generic signing autority in the next release ???

Please help, it is important while we are waiting for our final
trusted certificate.

IE4 is not having this problem and if we can't find a solution
with Netscape, we will have to be IE4 ONLY.

Regards,
Christopher Potter
IT deputy manager , Natiovision

[Maryau Jeune]

Hi Chris,

I am not sure that your problem is "when trying to connect a WEB site having a certificate not approved by a trusted authority (with https)" because the browsers are usually prompted to trust or not the Web server they are trying to connect to even if the CA which signed the Web server certificate is not trusted by them.

I have seen that error before and I believe it was certificate related.  Make sure that you have the right Netscape extensions (if the Web server certificate does have Netscape extensions) that would allow the certificate to be used for SSL (bit for SSL_server is set).  Also, make sure that your keyUsage is set properly (for signing and encryption).  The reason why I think it is working for IE is because IE ignores the netscape-cert-type extension.  Anyway, I hope this helps.

Regards,
Maryau