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IE7 certificate error message 1
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You should also have gotten the same message with IE6 (even though it looked differently). I really don't recommend disabling this behavior; IE is warning the clients that there is a problem with the site's security certificate. This could potentially mean that information submitted to the site might not be going exactly where you think that it is.
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I know what you mean. I have the same issue, and it drives me nuts. Frankly I have resolved it mostly by switching to Firefox for everything but the sites which require IE (on line virus scans, for instance, and it doesn't really work. Or FTP, which in 7 is an issue unto itself).
I think the people who developed 7 all go by the policy of "think, there must be a more difficult way to do it."
Anyway, you want an answer, not sympathy. You need to do a couple of things, which won't resolve the problem entirely. Go to your security settings and reduce them. They are still stronger than in IE 6.
Now for the trick:
Go to tools>Advanced.
*Uncheck "Warn about certificate error mismatch." (just about the last entry)
*Uncheck "Check for server certificate revocation."
*Uncheck "Check for signatures on downloaded programs" (most of the drivers I have uploaded from trusted sites for my rebuild have come in with no signature. The signature process is the reason I don't have drivers for palm..no reason to be involved in MS's bureaucracy wars.)
Now go to security settings and find the following do the following:
ENABLE the setting "Don't prompt for client certificate selection when no certificates or only one certificate exists."
(And if you don't see the stupidity in that one, you haven't been taking your vitamins.)
Dope slaps to the people who ideated the system and a pox on the house of gates, both channels.
I think the people who developed 7 all go by the policy of "think, there must be a more difficult way to do it."
Anyway, you want an answer, not sympathy. You need to do a couple of things, which won't resolve the problem entirely. Go to your security settings and reduce them. They are still stronger than in IE 6.
Now for the trick:
Go to tools>Advanced.
*Uncheck "Warn about certificate error mismatch." (just about the last entry)
*Uncheck "Check for server certificate revocation."
*Uncheck "Check for signatures on downloaded programs" (most of the drivers I have uploaded from trusted sites for my rebuild have come in with no signature. The signature process is the reason I don't have drivers for palm..no reason to be involved in MS's bureaucracy wars.)
Now go to security settings and find the following do the following:
ENABLE the setting "Don't prompt for client certificate selection when no certificates or only one certificate exists."
(And if you don't see the stupidity in that one, you haven't been taking your vitamins.)
Dope slaps to the people who ideated the system and a pox on the house of gates, both channels.
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If I click on "More Info" I get :
"If you arrived at this page by clicking a link, check the website address in the address bar to be sure that it is the address you were expecting.
When going to a website with an address such as try adding the 'www' to the address, If you choose to ignore this error and continue, do not enter private information into the website."
"If you arrived at this page by clicking a link, check the website address in the address bar to be sure that it is the address you were expecting.
When going to a website with an address such as try adding the 'www' to the address, If you choose to ignore this error and continue, do not enter private information into the website."
Speaking of Addresses and URL's, is there an address you can supply that is giving this error message? It would be interesting to know if others received the same error message, however, don't respond with anything that might be of a confidential nature.
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Why would you not get the message, when the certificate is not correct???jlockley said:
As, I mentioned, clicking in the pink box to the right of the address bar that says "Certificate Error will give you the details of the error. In this case, it's very minor but the error is "The certificate used by this web site was issued to a different address" Which is absolutely correct if you actaully look at the certificat info. Notice the extra e. In this case, the website owner has 2 domain names listed for only 1 certificate. Both spellings of the domain name are functional, but the certificate used was generated for a different one. These sites happen to be the same company, but what if they were not? How would you expect IE to warn you?
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