From: IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig@iem.at>
To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com>
Cc: Pd List <pd-list@iem.at>
Sent: Fri, June 18, 2010 4:45:28 AM
Subject: Re: [PD] puredata.info login problem
On 06/18/2010 05:11 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> Hi,
> On the
puredata.info homepage, when I click "login" I am taken to
>
puredata.info//login_form (<-- notice the extra backslash). What's
> odd is that if I mouse over the "login" link in Firefox the address
> is shown correctly in the status bar at the bottom of the window.
this does not matter.
>
> This causes firefox (in osx) to give me the "Untrusted connection" message.
> (Same on ie on winxp and epiphany in linux.)
this has nothing to do with the URL, but with the certificate used for
encryption.
as an admin, i will plainly refuse to allow the webpage to transmit
passwords in plaintext.
unless somebody (probably: you) is willing to pay for an
"officially
trusted" certificate (thawte,...), we have to use a certificate signed
by cacert.
you can either: manually accept the certificate presented by
puredata.info, or install the cacert root certificate as found on
http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3masdt
IOhannes