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[Mark W Wenning <mark.wenning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: dell-poweredge
     Assignee: Kent Baxley (kentb) => Mark W Wenning (mwenning)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1216059

Title:
  Firefox difficulties with https and IPv6 addresses

Status in The Dell PowerEdge project:
  Confirmed
Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When a webserver uses an untrusted certificate (such as a self-signed
  certificate), Firefox encounters multiple bugs trying to use https
  over IPv6. The main upstream bug report is
  <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633001> but
  <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=828873> also seems
  relevant.

  On Ubuntu 12.04 with firefox package 23.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1, I
  am not even prompted to add a security exception. I found that with
  Firefox on Ubuntu 10.04, I am prompted to add a security exception but
  have no way to click "add exception" (though we only care about Ubuntu
  12.04 for PowerEdge). This is problematic for Dell because iDRAC and
  CMC ship with self-signed certificates, so there is no way to reach
  the iDRAC or CMC web interface over IPv6 from Firefox. I see the same
  behavior whether entering an IPv6 address (e.g.
  https://[2001:DB8::1]/), when manually specifying the port (e.g.
  https://[2001:DB8::1]:443/) or when specifying a hostname with only an
  AAAA record (e.g. https://host-ipv6.example.com/). The same URLs work
  with Chromium.

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