[imp] Emoticons (smilies, smiley) giving cert error

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at horde.org
Wed Feb 20 07:47:37 UTC 2013


Quoting cjdl01 <cjdl01 at brokensolstice.com>:

> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting cjdl01 <cjdl01 at brokensolstice.com>:
>>
>>>> Again, whether you are able to load those via your browsers is  
>>>> completely unrelated.
>>>>
>>>> You may also try install the http or curl extensions for PHP,  
>>>> those may handle certification failures more gracefully.
>>>> -- 
>>>> Jan Schneider
>>>> The Horde Project
>>>> http://www.horde.org/
>>>
>>> Hi Jan,
>>>
>>> I guess I don't really understand what you meant then by by  
>>> verifying my certificate.  I though using a browser (not on the  
>>> host machine) was doing just that.
>>
>> But the error message you provided was coming from the PHP server,  
>> not the browser.  So some component of Horde/IMP was trying to  
>> access that URL, and that program could not handle the certificate.
>>
>> Just because you paid someone to sign a certificate does not mean  
>> it will magically work across all SSL verifying installations - the  
>> particular program verifying the certificate has to have access to  
>> the root CA cert in order to verify.
>>
>> michael
>
>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> That makes sense.  I guess I just don't know how to verify it via  
> horde or php.  The interesting thing, however, is that it never gave  
> me problems before the update (and I did not have those two packages  
> Jan mentioned installed on the system).  So, maybe the new horde  
> just handles that sort of thing differently.

Or Horde is now using a different HTML backend.  Or something changed

> In any event, it is working now with those two additional packages  
> installed.  I'd still be interested in learning how one checks the  
> validity of his certificate via horde (or php), however, if you care  
> to share.

We don't verify certificates.  That is all handled by openssl I believe.

michael

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