Cannot Browse webpage on Orbitel Website

[ascii_elite]

With Pale Moon 6.0.2 on Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2, I have tried today and yesterday from multiple locations to browse to:

https://www.orbitel.com/index.php?option=com_login&task=miCuenta

I have not been able to browse to the page using Pale Moon 6.0.2, but am able to using Mozilla Firefox 6.0.2 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 with SP2.

When I attempt to browse to the specified page, I receive the error illustrated in the attachment to this post.

How can the specified page be browsed using Pale Moon 6.0.2?

[Moonchild]

This is because of an outdated CA or root cert list (either on your system or in the browser)

• Open a new tab, and type this into the address/URL:
  about:config
• A table will appear showing various Firefox settings ("Preference Names") and their current values.
• In the Filter box type: broswer.xul
• There should now be a shorter list of settings, including one named browser.xul.error_pages.expert_bad_cert with a value of false.
• Double-click browser.xul.error_pages.expert_bad_cert. The value will change to true.
• Exit completely from Pale Moon (i.e. close all windows, or File -> Exit), and then restart it.

The next time you visit the secure site where there is a problem with its certificate, the certificate error page will show a button that allows the site to be added as an exception, and then you'll be able to proceed and view the site.

WARNING: If Pale Moon warns that there is a problem with a site's certificate, proceed only if:

1. you are 100% certain that it's safe, or
2. you accept the risks!

Hope this helps!

[ascii_elite]

This is because of an outdated CA or root cert list (either on your system or in the browser)

I do not believe that the problem is an outdated CA or root certificate list. The web page referenced in the initial post of this thread was tested using the system browser and the page displayed (this should rule out the system certificates/CA). Mozilla Firefox 6.0.2 (same version that the version of Pale Moon I use seems to be based on) also successfully could browse to the page (this should rule out the Pale Moon browser certificates/CAs if it uses the same certificates/CAs as Mozilla Firefox 6.0.2 and those certificates are properly installed).

Double-click browser.xul.error_pages.expert_bad_cert. The value will change to true.

I tried setting rowser.xul.error_pages.expert_bad_cert to true as you suggested; however, the problem persisted.

Both Mozilla Firefox 6.0.2 and Pale Pale Moon 6.0.2 have browser.xul.error_pages.expert_bad_cert set to false by default.

Pale Moon 6.0.2 had app.update.cert.checkAttributes and app.update.cert.requireBuiltIn set to false (by default); I set the variables to true (the Mozilla Firefox 6.0.2 default), individually, and tested the web page referenced in the initial post to this thread, but the problem persisted.

[Moonchild]

I have tested the page in the current version of the browser (7.0.1) by going to the home page and then the login page which makes a secure connection and there is no issue whatsoever communicating with the server securely. You are therefore correct: it's not an outdated certificate list.
The problem still persisting with setting the value to "true" means that something else is going on entirely, and you may have to create a new profile to fix it.

First though, I suggest you try to fix your current profile by selecting "restart with add-ons disabled" from the Help menu, and in the startup dialog select "Reset toolbars and controls" and "reset preferences to default", then "Make changes and continue"

[ascii_elite]

First though, I suggest you try to fix your current profile by selecting "restart with add-ons disabled" from the Help menu, and in the startup dialog select "Reset toolbars and controls" and "reset preferences to default", then "Make changes and continue"

I tried this. There was no change in ability to display the desired page.

you may have to create a new profile to fix it.

I deleted the entire "%USerProfile%\Application Data\Moonchild Productions" directory tree and relaunched Pale Moon by running "PALEMOON https://www.orbitel.com/index.php?optio ... k=miCuenta". The problem persisted.

[Moonchild]

Please try upgrading your browser to the latest version. It is possible the DigiNotar problem that plagued 6.0 and the haphazard fix for it are the root cause for your problems. This has been handled more properly in 7 and the soon to be released version 8.

[ascii_elite]

Please try upgrading your browser to the latest version. It is possible the DigiNotar problem that plagued 6.0 and the haphazard fix for it are the root cause for your problems. This has been handled more properly in 7 and the soon to be released version 8.

Did the DigNotar problem affect Pale Moon differently than Firefox?

I was running Pale Moon 7.01 before using Pale Moon 6.0.2. The problem described in this thread also applied to Pale Moon 7.0.1.

I again installed Pale Moon 7.0.1, after fully uninstalling and removing the Pale Moon data not purged by the uninstaller, and attempted to browse to the page where the problem was noticed. The problem persists and Orbitel page does not display in Pale Moon 7.0.1.

[Moonchild]

I've verified the problem. this is related to a built-in CA certificate, as a result of a second diginotar-alike hack that has occurred recently. Mozilla has timed their release to synch up with re-issues, unfortunately Pale Moon takes a bit more time to be released.

This will be fixed in v8 to be released this coming Monday, and if you can't wait you can grab 7.0.2 (unreleased) from the Archived versions page which also has this fixed as it's based on a slightly later version of the source code.
(I didn't catch the reproducibility before since I used 7.0.2, myself, in my test setup)

[ascii_elite]

I've verified the problem. this is related to a built-in CA certificate, as a result of a second diginotar-alike hack that has occurred recently. Mozilla has timed their release to synch up with re-issues, unfortunately Pale Moon takes a bit more time to be released.

This will be fixed in v8 to be released this coming Monday, and if you can't wait you can grab 7.0.2 (unreleased) from the Archived versions page which also has this fixed as it's based on a slightly later version of the source code.
(I didn't catch the reproducibility before since I used 7.0.2, myself, in my test setup)

I just installed and tested the Orbitel website page using Pale Moon 7.0.2 (unreleased).

The problem persists.

[Moonchild]

7.0.2 calls up the page just fine for me.

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