How to manage and accept SelfSigned SSL certificate in IE?

Question

I have a virtual machine that has a self-assessment certificate. If I test my https page in Firefox or Chrome, I just need to accept or add an exception for the certificate, and everything will be fine. I can make a JSON or JSONP call.

However, when I do this in IE, I cannot. I add the certificate as a ROOT certificate and then

1) every time I restart the browser, it again requests a certificate.

2) every time I make a JSONP call using https, IE doesn't like it and shows that "IE has blocked this website from displaying content with a security certificate error ...". and even I click "show blocked content", it doesn’t help and doesn’t show anything. :(

any idea how to work with IE (without getting a real certificate). Thanks.

Answer 1

When Internet Explorer presents a warning screen saying “There is a problem with this website security certificate”, follow these steps to create a security exception for this website:

• Click Continue on this site (not recommended).
• Right click on page background
• Select Properties
• Click the "Certificates" button
• Click "Install Certificate ..."
• Click "Next>"
• Select "Put all certificates in the following store"
• Click "Browse ..."
• Select Trusted Root Certification Authorities
• Click OK
• Click "Next>"
• Click Finish
• A security warning will appear. If you are sure that the certificate is safe, click "Yes"
• A notification “Import was successful” will appear. Click OK

From now on (until the expiration of the self-signed certificate), you will not receive a certificate warning every time you go to this page.

If this does not work, you may have already installed the certificate in the wrong place. To remove an incorrectly installed certificate, open Internet Options, open the Content tab, click the Certificates button, find your certificate in one of the tab lists and click the Delete button. Then repeat the following steps.

If after this a failure occurs, there is a high probability that your certificate is invalid. Right-click the web page, select "Properties", click "Certificates" and double-check that the name "Issued to:" matches the domain in the URL bar and that "Valid from ... to" .. "the dates include the date, on which the client computer is installed.

If the installation certificate is greyed out , you must run iexplore as an administrator.

Answer 2

Did you put it in the certificate store of trusted user roots or on a computer? Do you work as the same user? Making a self-signed certificate in the Trusted Roots repository should work fine.

Alternatively, look at the wired traffic and see if the corresponding certificate is sent to the client, it could be a server configuration problem.