Re: [Camino] Camino and SSL certificates

At 6:46 Uhr -0700 20.06.2008, Stuart Morgan wrote:
>On Jun 20, 2008, at 3:40 AM, Hauke Fath wrote:
>
>>  (3) Trunk removed the dialog to temporarily or permanently accept a
>>  server certificate and grew
>>  <http://www.spg.tu-darmstadt.de/~hf/camino/ssl-cert-botch/cert-error.ti=
ff
>>  >
>>  instead, which refers the user to "advanced encryption settings" as a
>>  way out. They do not exist on Camino.
>
>The Mozilla core made that change. We didn't control the decision, the
>timing, or the wording they used on the error page.

I understand that. Still, there is Bug 402459, opened six months ago. =

How hard can it be to see the whole picture, and make sure that =

functionality is not lost?

>>  Comments, insights?
>
>That's a blocker for shipping 2.0a1, and I've been working on it as I
>have time.

The Camino bug 383988 doesn't block anything, or am I misreading bugzilla?

>What more are you looking for beyond it being the highest
>priority bug for us to fix before we can ship an alpha?

That's good to hear. Still, these targets can be moved, and have been =

in the past...

>We have a distinction between releases and nightly development builds
>for a reason;

As a long-time user of Mozillas, and other open source software, I am =

aware of that distinction.

>if you find missing or broken functionality
>unacceptable, you should be using a stable release, which doesn't have
>this problem.

I collected the information from bugzilla because I figured that =

there were a lot of loose ends, and the whole picture - Camino being =

unusable with custom root certificates because of a combination of =

bugs - might not be perceived.

If that meant stepping on your toes, I apologize.

	hauke


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