[Bug 237268] [NEW] Formatting errors in alert for invalid security certificate

[Alexander Sack]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 06:00:19AM -0000, era wrote:
> Public bug reported:
> 
> Binary package hint: firefox
> 
> When I right-click on a link and select "Open Link in New Tab" from the
> menu, an alert is displayed if the page in the new tab has an invalid
> SSL certificate.
> 
> However, the alert box is malformed; the text contains bare HTML tags
> and a literal (null) where I imagine the author expected to see a live
> link and some text.
> 
> The following is as faithful as I can make it.  For company policy
> reasons, I cannot provide a screen shot, as it would reveal internal
> server names etc.
> 
>    Alert
> [X]
> 
>   host.example.com:443 uses an invalid security certificate.
> 
>   The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown.
>   The certificate is only valid for <a id="cert_domain_link" title="secure.example.com">(null)
>   </a>
> 
>   (Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)
>                                                                                                  [OK]
> 
> The page which is displayed in the new tab also has the (null) string in
> the text "The certificate is only valid for (null)".
> 
> Hardy amd64; I have the feeling a recent Firefox 3 upgrade (RC1) might
> have introduced this error.

Please ensure that you have firefox properly restarted. to be sure
re-login at best.

 status incomplete

 - Alexander


** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Formatting errors in alert for invalid security certificate
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237268
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