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One the one hand, on the other hand
Wednesday, July 30 2008
The newest versions of Firefox and IE are sticklers when it comes to SSL, which is why right now this second, you’ll see this message if you use Kiwibank’s online banking:
Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to www.kiwibank.co.nz.
Peer’s Certificate has been revoked.
(Error code: sec_error_revoked_certificate)
Firefox is not very helpful at this point. With other SSL problems it will show you the certificate and how it was/was not verified. No such facility here.
According to the phone banking person I just talked to, the authority that issued their certificate assumed they were in the UK(!) and set various fields accordingly.
This is not good.
However, what was good was that my call was answered in about 30s, the person on the other end knew about the problem already, they had a reasonable explanation, and they had a suggested workaround. In these days of outsourced, scripted help desks, that’s pretty good indeed.
Tags: security ~ firefox ~ kiwibank ~ support
Things I love about Firefox : view selection
Tuesday, October 09 2007
If you select a portion of a page and right-click, “View Selection” shows you the HTML for just that portion (or in some builds, the whole source, but with HTML corresponding to your selection highlighted). Invaluable to the developer, but not universally known.
Tags: firefox ~ web developmentRendered at 2012-02-05 18:17:13