Fedora home server using core 9

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 20:29:20 +0200,
  Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
> I didn't tell Firefox anything.
> I clicked on the advertised URL and was told there was a Page Error.

Here is what you got:
Secure Connection Failed
www.scientificlinux.org uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown.
(Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)
    * This could be a problem with the server's configuration, or it could be someone trying to impersonate the server.
    * If you have connected to this server successfully in the past, the error may be temporary, and you can try again later.
          Or you can add an exception…

This is a misleading warning that the Firefox developers have decided to use.
It is really just a warning and if you don't want to see them in the future,
you can save the cert and you won't see them any more. I get these a lot since
I have deleted all of the delivered CA's because I have no special trust
relationship to them. I either permanently or temporarily OK certs for sites
when using https connections.

> My immediate thought was that if ScientificLinux expect me
> to jump through hoops to view their web-page
> then they are unlikely to place ease of use
> high on their list of priorities -

The issue is really Firefox's fault, not Scientific Linux's.