Firefox won't allow connection when site certificate is invalid

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 15:52 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 09:03 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 11:47:41 +0100
> > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 
> > > Unfortunately not. This is a site used for "official" purposes and there
> > > is no way round it. And the site administrators do not respond to email.
> > 
> > Create a virtual machine with an older firefox in it and use the VM
> > when you have to access the site?
> 
> That's one route. I already have a Windows VM so I guess I'll try it
> with IE first.

IE was a bust too, but Firefox 36 worked. I just used "yum downgrade" to
get it. It allowed me to indicate the exception. Going back to 37 failed
again (i.e. the exceptions don't seem to carry over from one version to
another).

It turns out that this is a known bug (or feature) with 37. For more see
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1126034

poc