• Registered: 2007-12-01
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Topic: How to avoid invalid certificate warnings?

Hello!

The Chillispot uamserver, when WiFi users login, requires the client browser to connect via HTTPS to the server's uamport.

The certificate of that server does not come from a CA, so browser complain and ask the user if he wants to continue. This was only mildly annoying with Firefox and Explorer 6, but Explorer 7 displays a nasty warning page.

Is there a way to solve this problem? Maybe even connecting non-securely would do.

Thanks in advance,
Michele..

  • cmos
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  • Registered: 2007-11-08
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Re: How to avoid invalid certificate warnings?

comment out the https part in hotspotlogin.cgi

#If she did not use https tell her that it was wrong.
if (!($ENV{HTTPS} =~ /^on$/)) {
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN\">
<html>
<head>
............
............
";
exit(0);
}
  • liri
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  • Registered: 2007-11-27
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Re: How to avoid invalid certificate warnings?

It's just a matter of buying a CA from a known authority and installing it on your apache server.

Regards,
Liran Tal.