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[Fabián Rodríguez <magicfab@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I can confirm this, it also prevents easily commenting on any item
posted to news.launchpad.net.

I tried to post a comment to http://news.launchpad.net/podcast
/launchpod-episode-8-developer-interview-with-curtis-hovey-and-chat-
about-landscape and got this error from Firefox:

news.launchpad.net uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is not trusted because it is self signed.
(Error code: sec_error_untrusted_issuer)

as a workaround one can add news.launchpad.net's SSL certificate to the
list of certificates we explicitly trust, however this defeats the
identity authentication purpose of the certificate (as its self-signed
cet fingerprint is not published elsewhere on a trusted source).

Steps to work-around:

1) In Firefox go to Edit > Preferences > "Advanced" button
2) Got to the "Encryption" tab, click on "View certificates"
3) Go tot the "Servers" tab, click on "Add exception"
4) Fill the "Location" field with: https://news.launchpad.net/wp-comments-post.php
5) Click on "Get certificate", this will fetch the SSL certificate information.
6) Click on "View" and verify the certificate matches the screenshot I am providing attached to this bug report, click "Close"
7) If you trust this SSL certificate to be Canonical's even though it is self-signed, click on "Confirm security exception"


** Changed in: launchpad-documentation
       Status: New => Confirmed

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https://news.launchpad.net uses an invalid certificate
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249176
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