Qustion

[BarryF]

You can use the new Google Chrome browser, which also allows you to proceed.  It's a pretty nice browser.

Barry


--- On Thu, 11/27/08, Dale Farnsworth <dale at farnsworth.org> wrote:

> From: Dale Farnsworth <dale at farnsworth.org>
> Subject: Re: Qustion
> To: "Farnsworth Family History mailing list" <history at farnsworth.org>
> Date: Thursday, November 27, 2008, 11:55 AM
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 01:01:19AM -0500,
> Grampa_Jeff at bellsouth.net wrote:
> > Why do all the links say something about certificate
> error : navigation blocked?
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> First, you say "all the links".  If it is truly
> all links, then
> something is misconfigured on your end and you may
> disregard the rest
> of this message.  However, if it is just a few links, then
> read on.
> 
> The answer to this question is surprisingly complex, and I
> won't be able
> to go into all the details, but I'll give an overview.
> 
> I need a way to exchange information privately (without
> eavesdropping)
> with users of the website--for example, when submitting
> passwords for
> managing a subscription to the Farnsworth history mailing
> list.  The
> https protocol is the best way to do this, so I use it for
> the secure
> pages on www.farnsworth.org. Most pages on
> www.farnsworth.org, like most
> of the internet, use the http protocol which provides no
> such eavesdropping
> protection.
> 
> In addition, the https protocol provides for authenticating
> a web server
> via encrypted "certificates".  A website owner
> can register that website
> with a certificate authority, for a minimum of about
> US$75.00 per year,
> and the certificate authority will provide a
> computer-readable
> certificate that certifies (to some degree) that the
> website has been
> registered.
> 
> The guarantees provided by such website registration are
> minimal and are
> of little value for www.farnsworth.org, so I have opted not
> to register
> the site.  (At $75/year, it's almost cheap enough for
> me to do it to
> avoid the aggravation of questions like this, but
> that's $75/year per
> website, and they begin to add up.)  Instead, I provide a
> self-signed
> certificate.  In effect, I specify that my website is run
> by me.  This
> still provides the full anti-eavesdropping protection.
> 
> This works fine with some web browsers.  Firefox, for
> example, allows
> you to simply acknowledge that you understand the website
> has not been
> registered, and to permanently accept the website's
> unregistered certificate.
> Internet Explorer used to do the same.  However, in the
> last few years,
> Microsoft decided to make this more difficult for users of
> Internet
> Explorer and now provides no easy way to accept
> certificates for
> unregistered web sites.  With Internet Explorer, you can
> only accept
> these unregistered certificates temporarily, until the next
> time you
> restart Internet Explorer.
> 
> I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but I'm too cheap
> to pay the $75/year
> on Microsoft's whim.
> 
> I recommend using Firefox, instead of Internet Explorer,
> which will
> solve the problem on your end.  Firefox is much better than
> Internet
> Explorer for security reasons as well.  It can be legally
> downloaded
> for free from
> <http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/>.
> 
> -Dale
> 
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