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Internet Explorer: How to handle invalid security certificates ?


When accessing for the first time Community Single Sign-On (CSSO) enabled web sites like

the Internet Explorer will certainly announce The following Security Alert dialog.

[!IE6-SecurityAlertpng|align=center!]

If you want to omit this warning in the future,

  • Select the radio button In the future, do not show this warning

Anyway

  • Push the button OK to leave this dialog

The following steps differ a little bit, depending on the version of your Internet Explorer installation

Internet Explorer 6

  • Push the button View Certificate

[!IE6-SecurityAlert-ViewCertificatepng|align=center!]

*Internet Explorer 7 & 8 *

  • Click on the link Continue to this website (not recommended)

[!IE7-CertificateError-Continuepng|align=center!]

  • Click into the red field Certificate Error to the right of the URL at the top of the window

  • Now, the Untrusted Certificate dialog will appear

  • Click on the link View Certificates

[!IE7-CertificateError-UntrustedCert-ViewCertpng|align=center!]

All versions

From here, the following steps are identical to all Internet Explorer versions, since they are part of the Windows Operating System implementation. The following images are taken from a Windows XP installation.

[!XP-Certificate-Details-Thumbprint-OKpng|align=center!]

  • The Certificate dialog should open

  • Switch to the tab Details

  • Within the list, scroll down until you reach the entry Thumbprint and click on that entry

  • In a second browser window, open the EDIT WP 5.7 Certification Authority page and look for the SHA-1 fingerprint of the server you currently wanted to access

  • Compare the Thumbprint value with the value for the SHA-1 fingerprint of the current server in the EDIT WP 5.7 Certification Authority page.

Note: Proceed only, if the fingerprints are identical. Otherwise, inform the editsupport@bgbm.org EDIT Support Team immediately !

  • Switch back to the tab General

  • Push the button Install Certificate

[!XP-Certificate-General-InstallCertpng|align=center!]

  • This starts the Certificate Import Wizard. Just push the button Next

[!wikiIEImportCACertificatesXP-CertificateImportWizardpng|align=center!]

  • Verify, that the radio button Automatically select the certificate store based on the type of certificate is selected

  • Push the button Next

[!XP-CertificateImportWizard-CertificateStore-Automaticpng|align=center!]

  • You may verify your settings again

  • Leave the Certificate Import Wizard by pushing the button Finish

[!XP-CertificateImportWizard-Finish-Automaticpng|align=center!]

  • The certificate should be successfully installed now.

  • Finish the Certificate Import Wizard by pushing the button OK

[!wikiIEImportCACertificatesXP-CertificateImportWizard-Successpng|align=center!]

  • Close the Certificate dialog by pushing the button Close.

[!XP-Certificate-General-OKpng|align=center!]

Internet Explorer 6

  • Now, You can close the Security Alert dialog too by pushing the button Yes

[!IE6-SecurityAlert-Yespng|align=center!]

From now on, you should never be minded by an security alert for this server.

But, you will have to repeat these steps once for each other Community Single Sign-On (CSSO) enabled web sites you did not have visited before !

Updated by Andreas Müller almost 2 years ago · 10 revisions