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by liotier 3800 days ago
> Firefox refuses to let me look at this page because of a certificate problem.

Me too, but I know why: my employer's proxy MITMs any SSL connections whose certificate authority it does not recognize as bona fide. Quite aggravating - but a very nice tool to explain SSL MITM to users... There's always a silver lining !
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JoshTriplett 3800 days ago
> whose certificate authority it does not recognize as bona fide

That's a very strange criteria; do you mean that anything that would have been a certificate error gets MITMed instead, rather than rejected? Very strange.

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liotier 3799 days ago
Not just the self-signed ones - also some others... I wonder what the whitelist is. The proxy is the infamous McAfee Web Gateway - I don't know if the list is user-maintained or supplied by the vendor.
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