#5534 HIGH Update.: Browse cannot connect to sites with non-standard Certificate Authorities

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#5534: Browse cannot connect to sites with non-standard Certificate Authorities
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  Reporter:  cscott           |       Owner:  erikos  
      Type:  defect           |      Status:  reopened
  Priority:  high             |   Milestone:  Update.2
 Component:  browse-activity  |     Version:          
Resolution:                   |    Keywords:  relnote 
  Verified:  0                |    Blocking:          
 Blockedby:  5487             |  
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Comment(by nealmcb):

 I ran into this problem at a wifi site that uses a captive portal with ssl
 and javascript and an expired certificate.

 I wonder if there is a workaround with a different browser.  E.g. you can
 yum install elinks, which has ssl support, though I don't know how it
 reacts to expired certificates.  But it doesn't seem to have javascript,
 though it seems that that can be configured at build time.  So it wouldn't
 work with captive wifi portals that require javascript.

 I don't know the current story on other fedora text-mode browsers with ssl
 and javascript support.  w3m might also be able to do both, but it also
 doesn't seem to be built with javascript.  Or at least this page doesn't
 seem to work:
 http://www.javascriptsearch.com/scripts/Utilities/javascript_test.html

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