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by vbezhenar 2531 days ago
A lot of internal enterprise networks use MITM, so your app won't work there as well. It might be a good thing or not, depending on your use-case.
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Yeah, I considered this a feature. As mentioned elsewhere in these comments, we should have a way to limit the scope of corporate certs.
One solution is to use Name Constraints. The organizational certificate authority could be issued with Name Constraints limiting its power to a certain domain name only, e.g. *.example.com, using Permitted Subtree.

If I was setting up an organizational CA for internal websites (not MITM), I would consider using Name Constraints to limit the certificate's scope and potential for abuse or compromise.

If the app is not for that particular corporation, then no harm done.