firefox 40 shows a non-overrideable security error when talking to a captive portal
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Critical
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When trying to connect to the airport wifi at the Portland Airport (https:/
Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to flypdxconnect.
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
When the user is behind a captive portal and talking to that portal is the only way to get Internet access, it is not acceptable to enforce an SSL security policy where the user has no way of overriding it, no way of fixing the server, and no reason to care about the security of the connection to this server.
As a workaround for this issue, I ran chrome.
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Group_5 (santhoshsk12695) |
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Group_5 (santhoshsk12695) → nobody |
Try visiting about:config and temporarily toggle security. ssl3.dhe_ rsa_aes_ 128_sha and security. ssl3.dhe_ rsa_aes_ 256_sha to false-- that got me to a portal that was causing the same issue. Then after you get online you can set them back to true.