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2024-12-22 21:46:45

Karl Auerbach on Nostr: I have lots of IoT devices - including file servers. Many of these have ...

I have lots of IoT devices - including file servers. Many of these have vendor-installed self-signed certificates. (I'm looking at you pfSense, Netgear, etc.) [At least pfSense has some hooks to deal with certificates, other platforms have nada.]

Anyway, Chrome and now Firefox have entered a stupid race-to-nannyism in which a) they do not honor a setting to *not* try to upgrade everything to HTTPS and b) refuse to accept self-signed certificates.

Firefox has a setting in about:config (dom.block_download_insecure) to allow some bypass but this seems to have no effect.

Anyway, now I am down to Safari as the only mainstream browser I have that can interact with my IoT devices that have self-signed certificates.

Grrrrr.
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