Comments on: A Note About the Cybervillains SSL Certificate

By: Amar

Amar — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:16:48 +0000

I have an issue with the cybervillains certificate. I am using selenium-server-standalone-2.28.0.jar. I have installed certificate on Windows 7, Fedora Linux, Windows Xp. However, the certificate is working on Windows 7 and Fedora Linux. In Windows Xp, the certificate is unable to open https sites on Google Chrome 24 browser.

The Error logged is untrusted site, please provide proper certificate.

Is there any changes to be made on the browser side to make https sites work.

Please provide workarounds. Thanks in advance.

By: bigdylan

bigdylan — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:23:08 +0000

so for those who are interested, it is possible to get 1.x working with the new certificate, so it you like us, cannot make a switch like this as quickly as it needs to be made. Follow the following steps (note, we only use Firefox, so this only shows how to do this for Firefox, some steps shortened for brevity):

1) Download new Selenium 2.x and pull out the sslSupport directory
2) Replace the existing 1.x sslSupport directory with the new one
3) Open up a selenium browser session, go to the Tools->Options->Advanced->Encryption
4) Delete the existing CyberVillans certificate
5) Import the new certificate
6) go to about:support and click “open containing folder” to get to the Firefox profile directory
7) Copy the cert8.db file and put this in the appropriate profile directories inside the Selenium JAR(s)

You should be good to go..

By: shs96c

shs96c — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:37:52 +0000

This has been fixed in 2.20.

By: shs96c

shs96c — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:34:06 +0000

Yes. If you’re still using a selenium 1.x JAR, you must update that to a 2.x JAR. It’s a drop in replacement, so you won’t need to rewrite your tests!

By: bigdylan

bigdylan — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:30:40 +0000

Does this certificate expiration apply to Selenium 1.x too?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:46:23 +0000

Is there a plan to look at the bug posted above (3373) before the old certificate expires at the end of March?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:58:10 +0000

Word of warning – see http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=3373 as there appear to be issues using Selenium server 2.19.0 with Firefox to test HTTPS sites using the selenium RC API

By: mdgreenfield

mdgreenfield — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:51:27 +0000

I should note that by accepting the certificate, my tests will continue and my tests will pass. The problem is that my settings are not persisted between tests.

By: mdgreenfield

mdgreenfield — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:49:46 +0000

I have upgraded my selenium-server-standalone.jar from 2.18 to 2.19 but when I run my tests with Firefox (both versions, 3.6.26 & 10) I get a SSL certificate error. My site is using HTTPS and the error that FF returns is:

Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer

Looking at the certificate in Firefox, the certificate CN is not known.

Does anyone know how to resolve this?

By: shs96c

shs96c — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:51:09 +0000

Your tests against HTTPS will start failing.