On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 14:29 +0000, Stef Walter wrote: > Dan Winship got me thinking about the "unable to verify identify of this > certificate" dialogs we see in browsers when using self-signed or > otherwise unverifiable certificates. > > I'm sure others have come to this conclusion: These are some of the most > useless dialogs that exist, a major cop out. They basically asking the > user something they can almost never possibly know. > > I'd like to propose [1] that we do away with these dialogs in GNOME. In > my opinion if we cannot verify the certificate, then we should simply > not show the UI elements that indicate a secure connection. We should > just act as if the connection is like any other normal connection. Unfortunately, one of the main UI elements that indicate a secure connection is the https:// URL in the URL bar. Are you proposing to disguise that as well? - Owen
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