Just a wild guess: If you click on "edit trust" on the root certificate in Firefox, you have to tick the box for web server certificates.
cheers Mat On Friday 04. October 2013 21:29:57 you wrote: > Hello, > > there exists a self signed root CA certificate (A) > one intermediate CA certificate (B) > and this intermedia certificate has signed a SSL certificate (C) of a > web server; > > the SSL certificate has in its 'Authority Information Access' extension > the URL to the > intermediate CA certificate, and the intermediate CA certificate has in > this extension the URL to the root CA certificate; > every certificate is stored in DER format; > > in case the certificate database of the browser has only the root CA > certificate and I surf to this webserver > which itself sends the whole certificate chain; why does this work > without errors only in IE, and not in FireFox? > > if the root CA certificate is a built-in token; then this works in > Firefox, too; > > why this strange behaviour? > > Thanks, > Walter > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org > Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
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