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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 9:10 AM/EST

Chrome, Safari and Self-Signed Certificates

I ran a column a couple weeks back about browsers and how they handle unsigned certificates.

How does Chrome handle them? For that matter, how does Safari handle them, since I forgot to include it in that column?

Chrome, at first, is much like Internet Explorer 7; it puts up an impossible-to-miss warning but lets you continue past it:

chrome-ssl-error.jpg

Then, if you do continue, like Firefox, it keeps a warning present in the address bar. Neat.

chrome-address-error.jpg

Safari is also much like IE 7 in that it pops up a warning dialog box:

safari.JPG

But when you choose Continue it continues with no visible indicator that anything is different.

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