Disable https warnings

anything I don't mind · 16 Sep 2011 at 12:10

Does anyone know how to disable browser warnings for self signed ssl certificates? I can find some information about it for IE. But none for opera or firefox.

There must be a way to prevent the browser from asking for confirmation when accepting self signed certificates. Anyone know?

anything I don't mind · 16 Sep 2011 at 14:17

That is correct, although accepting certs in opera still keeps prompting.

What i am after is a way to prevent the browser from prompting on self signed certs completely.

anything I don't mind · 16 Sep 2011 at 18:57

Yea, what i want is for the browser to install and accept self signed certificates as if they were signed certificates.

Like when you go to paypal for example the cert is automatically installed. I want that to happen with self signed certs.

anything I don't mind · 16 Sep 2011 at 20:42

ubern00b said:
When you go to paypal a cert isn't automatically installed. Your computer comes with pre-installed root certs for the issuing authorities to which the paypal cert is compared against for validation.

Automatically accepting/installing all self signed certs is incredibly stupid.

Why is it stupid?

Please explain to me why I should not trust ssl certificates that are not signed by certificate authorities but are from websites that i trust?

From what i understand, the worse that can happen is that i accepted a certificate that is not signed and has been compromised and allows a MITM attack possibility to decrypt packets.

What are the other risks ?

It seems non nonsensical to prompt me "are you sure you want to accept", I always click accept anyway, seems like a total waste of time to have to click accept every time.